Sentences with phrase «strong measures of teacher effectiveness»

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And the evidence on the importance of teacher academic proficiency generally suggests that effectiveness in raising student test scores is associated with strong cognitive skills as measured by SAT or licensure test scores, or the competitiveness of the college from which teachers graduate.

A strong emphasis on teacher evaluation and measuring effectiveness has led to increasing skepticism about American teachers and a lack of trust.

Acknowledging this influence and the lack of strong evidence supporting links between teacher effectiveness and traditional metrics that have driven teacher retention and compensation policies for decades, recent policy conversations have focused on new ways of measuring and rewarding effectiveness.

Despite some concerns about high - stakes uses of the measures, there is strong evidence that they provide important information about teachers» effectiveness in promoting student achievement growth.

He is a strong proponent of evaluating teachers» effectiveness and using student test scores as a measure of teachers» competency.

In a new era of teacher incentives and merit pay, the trickledown of federal law will soon demand that good teachers «show» their effectiveness, and that there is no stronger measure for it than how well their students achieve.

The report, entitled «Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project,» reportedly gives the strongest evidence to date of the validity of the value - added model as a tool to measure teacher effectiveness.