Sentences with phrase «only measure of teacher effectiveness»

On the other, there are some who argue that standardized assessments provide the only measure of teacher effectiveness and student achievement.

Not exact matches

Additional research that validates these measures of teacher effectiveness on non-tested outcomes would have important implications not only for teacher recruitment, assessment, and placement, but also for improving overall life trajectories of students.

We focused on research that examines how the various attributes of teachers affect student achievement, counting as legitimate evidence only those studies that used this measure of teachers» effectiveness.

We have only imperfect measures of teachers» effectiveness and, with one year of data, the variance in the estimation error can be as large as the variance in underlying teacher effects.

To ensure that we were focusing on potentially powerful variables, only those classroom factors which were statistically significantly related to one or more of the measures of student or teacher accomplishment (school effectiveness rating; fluency, retelling, or reading words measure; or teacher accomplishment rating) were included in the MANOVA.

Put differently, what VAM - based data provide, in general, «are incredibly imprecise and inconsistent measures of supposed teacher effectiveness for only a tiny handful [30 - 40 %] of teachers in a given school» (see reference here).

Hunsberger isn't the only instructor questioning the results of the Los Angeles school system's new approach to measuring teacher effectiveness.

One statute requires that only reverse seniority to be considered in times of layoffs, rather that measures of teacher effectiveness that depend on student test scores.

It's quite disgusting how EVERTHING that actually measures the effectiveness of a good teacher, only amounts to 40 % of one's evaluation.

It also will be recommended that local boards only grant tenure to teachers who achieve at least an «effective teacher» rating on the new multiple - measure teacher effectiveness evaluation, of which a significant portion will be based on student achievement data.

Throughout 2010, districts not only will gain access to the tools and training necessary to begin work in this area, but the recently passed legislation, the First to The Top Act, mandates the development and use of an annual multiple - measure teacher and principal effectiveness evaluation.

But accountability simply means that states are responsible not only for adequate inputs like sufficient funding, ambitious course content standard, and high - quality instruction, but also for outputs like accurate measures of student learning and teacher effectiveness.

Peer reviews, which were once a measure of effectiveness, will only be used to provide supportive feedback a teacher can use to improve professional practice.

He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.