Sentences with phrase «relative value of teachers»

«Worsening the real and relative value of teachers» pay will reduce the attraction of teaching as a career, damaging this vital profession and our economic prospects.»

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The first page of a section for teachers and subject leaders, examining the relative value of three main types of interactive talk in the classroom: IRF (Initiate Respond Feedback), Dialogic, Exploratory.

The retention numbers are percent increase in retention of a one standard deviation higher value - added teacher in SIG schools relative to non-SIG schools.

Consistent with earlier findings from Wright & Stallworth (2002), several of the beginning teachers recognized value in this tool relative to their marketability as future teachers.

Friedman was speaking specifically about value - added ratings of teachers — which use student scores on standardized tests to determine a teacher's relative effectiveness — and whether they are sufficiently accurate and reliable to guide personnel decisions.

CAP's report notes that the discussion of publishing teachers» names along with their value - added score (a measure of a teacher's efficacy, relative to other teachers in the group, in promoting student achievement) began when the Los Angeles Times published a report featuring the performance ratings for Los Angeles Unified School District teachers.

This can occur, regardless of what is actually happening in terms of actual effectiveness across America's classrooms, when the purported value that teachers add to or detract from student learning (i.e., 50 % of the state's model) is to substantively count, because VAM output is not calculated in absolute terms, but rather in relative or normative terms.

On this note, and «[i] n sum, recent research on value added tells us that, by using data from student perceptions, classroom observations, and test score growth, we can obtain credible evidence [albeit weakly related evidence, referring to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's MET studies] of the relative effectiveness of a set of teachers who teach similar kids [emphasis added] under similar conditions [emphasis added]... [Although] if a district administrator uses data like that collected in MET, we can anticipate that an attempt to classify teachers for personnel decisions will be characterized by intolerably high error rates [emphasis added].

Where value - added models purport to separate the contributions of teachers from other variables, the SGP model provides a student growth percentile for each student that shows their growth relative to other student with similar test - score histories.