They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in
part through standardized test scores.
Not exact matches
The
tests — required as
part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban
standardized tests for pre-kindergarten
through second grade.
A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and
tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students»
standardized -
test scores, concludes the series of new papers,
part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.
Though
testing is not
part of our class curriculum, our school is still accountable to show student growth and proficiency
through standardized tests.
A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and
tested through a random - assignment experiment, predicted fairly accurately how much high - performing teachers would successfully boost their students»
standardized -
test scores, concludes the series of new papers,
part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched three years ago.