Sentences with phrase «rigorous evaluation system»

Since then, many states have worked to put more rigorous evaluation systems in place, including incorporating student test scores.

Thus it is encouraging that policymakers are developing more rigorous evaluation systems, many of which are partly based on student test scores.

Yet many local, state, and national union leaders have not pressed for more rigorous evaluation systems for fear that such systems may result in the dismissal of additional teachers for poor performance and may strengthen the case for performance - based pay at the expense of the single - salary schedule.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

Washington, DC, is perhaps the most advanced in developing a rigorous evaluation system that links directly with personnel decisions.

But Cincinnati administrators offered to allow current teachers to return to the traditional salary schedule if their salary ever decreased under the new plan, according to former associate superintendent Ware, and to exempt first - year teachers from the rigorous evaluation system.

That work rested on a particular theory of action — that more rigorous evaluation systems would empower districts to make better decisions about which teachers to put at the front of the room and thereby improve student outcomes.

The assurances underlying ARRA underscore the importance of improving the usefulness of information on teacher effectiveness through robust data systems and rigorous evaluation systems.

The paper tackles what we are calling «infrastructure» or the foundation needed for states to use information about teachers, 3 such as robust data systems, professional standards for teaching, and rigorous evaluation systems.

At the heart of PICCS is a rigorous evaluation system.

Tennessee has a new, more rigorous evaluation system.

At the heart of the HCMS approach in PICCS is a rigorous evaluation system.

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has launched a rigorous evaluation system that will make some District teachers among the first in the nation to have their job security tied to standardized test scores.

More than three - quarters of the teachers polled care more about having a rigorous evaluation system that helps them improve over a system that only identifies the lowest performing students.