Sentences with phrase «of test score data»

A new teacher evaluation system in Louisiana requires frequent classroom observations and the use of test score data in teacher ratings.

And since most teachers» unions — including UTLA — strongly oppose the use of test score data in assessing teacher performance, it's unlikely they would ever agree to an evaluation system that includes it.

It would be even better to reach a point where education is no longer quite such a game of numbers, where high - stakes testing is phased out and decisions about schools don't come down to a tension - filled annual release of test score data.

Using three years of test score data (including the results released last month), the Manhattan Institute's Marcus Winters found that the program is

The Our Schools, Our Voice proposal would phase in the weight of test score data, which would count for a maximum of 25 % of the evaluation after two years.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

She says her department has issued guidance to schools reducing the impact of test score data in the state's teacher evaluation model, called RISE.

You can return to the Denver Post or Chalkbeat articles in just about any year just after the release of test score data to find the «it» schools of a particular year getting pages of press in their first year only to be soundly forgotten about when the new «it» schools come online and some of the previous years» schools fail to live up to expectations.

Using three years of test score data (including the results released last month), the Manhattan Institute's Marcus Winters found that the program is generally boosting math and English scores in elementary and middle schools.

Holy Cross education professor Jack Schneider called the Times piece «toxic» in its use of test score data and form of presentation.