Because learning is invisible, those trying to detect good classroom practice resort to using
proxies for student learning, including students seeming busy or engaged and motivated.
Not exact matches
A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both
for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of
student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect
proxy for those impacts.
As early implementers, these educators have gone both to the «source» of the standards and used other
proxies for quality and alignment: They've worked directly with and
learned from the standards» authors themselves and / or used tools created by them (e.g., the Publishers» Criteria developed by
Student Achievement Partners and several other groups).
Certainly, test scores are important
proxies for what
students are
learning, but currently there is no standardized assessment taken by both public - and private - school
students in grades K — 2 in Indiana.
But I'm troubled by how completely reading and math scores have become a
proxy for school quality, teacher performance, and
student learning.
A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both
for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of
student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test scores are a very imperfect
proxy for those impacts.
, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both
for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of
student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test scores are a very imperfect
proxy for those impacts.
A host of factors — lack of accountability
for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a
proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure
students»
learning.
Although academic ability is the most important explanatory variable in studies of
student learning, researchers control
for it with a wide array and combinations of
proxies.