Sentences with phrase «official observation scores»

• Although their final official observation scores were no different than comparison teachers, treatment teachers perceived their supervisors to be more supportive and their observations to be fairer.

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It's possible that some teachers could be scored based entirely on observation, while others would see no change at all, according to an Education Department official.

All three studies achieved very high response rates on all data collections, whether teacher surveys, classroom observations, collection of teachers» scores on college entrance exams or precertification exams, student achievement tests, collection of student data from district administrative records, principal surveys, or interviews with program officials.

In Florida, the state paid Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a for - profit textbook publisher, $ 4.8 million to develop classroom observation methods and nearly $ 4 million to the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit, to create a value - added model for grading teachers based on student test scores, according to state officials.

Officials have made several other changes to the system, including giving teachers the opportunity to have their lowest observation score dropped (if it's less than the average of the others).

District officials have said observations should be given the most weight and that student test scores should count for 30 % of an evaluation or less.