Sentences with phrase «performing teachers based on student test scores»

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And policies tethering teacher evaluations to student test scores are based on studies that link high - performing teachers to long - term improvements in the lives of students, particularly the most disadvantaged.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

The first study calculates two estimates: one based on the test scores of the teachers» high - performing students and the other based on the scores of their low - performing students.

In some states, those teachers are assigned a score anyway, either based on how their students performed on tests in other subjects or based on the performance of all students in a school.

During the strike, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis said she was concerned that «too much of the new evaluations will be based on students» standardized test scores,» and argued there were «too many factors beyond our control which impact how well some students perform on standardized tests, such as poverty, exposure to violence, homelessness, hunger, and other social issues beyond our control» (Chicago Teachers Union, 2012, para. 5).

Half of a teacher's rating will be calculated based on how he or she scores in the observation, and half will be determined by how students perform on standardized tests.

The state promised to turn around its poorest performing schools over the course of four years, evaluate teachers based in part on student test scores, increase the use of technology in the classroom, and use more rigorous academic standards along with new tests aligned to those standards.