A profile for
a teacher on student achievement from multiple sources, and a profile on teachers regarding how well they are doing or how much they are improving in instructional strategies.
The effect of a great
teacher on student achievement can last for years, shaping foundational skills, motivation, resilience, and confidence.
The effect of
the teacher on student achievement has been shown to be greater than
Summary: This article reports on a study that shows the positive impact of support from
a teacher on student achievement and their desire to continue their education.
ii ABSTRACT Isolating the effect of a given
teacher on student achievement (value - added modeling) is complicated when the student is taught the same subject by more than one teacher.
, American Economic Review, 2005; Anna Egalite, Brian Kisida, and Marcus Winters, «Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own - Race
Teachers on Student Achievement», Economics of Education Review, 2015; Stephen Holt and Seth Gershenson, «The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions», IZA discussion paper 9554, 2015; and Constance Lindsay and Cassandra Hart, «Exposure to Same - Race Teachers and Student Disciplinary Outcomes for Black Students in North Carolina», Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017.
Perhaps the most valuable byproduct of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been the resurgence of research on the effects of
teachers on student achievement, which has informed the redesign of teacher evaluation systems.
A body of research literature on teacher quality has isolated the impact of
teachers on student achievement, apart from other factors, such as the student's own motivations, support from family and peers, and school resources.
In his study, Hanushek calculated the economic value related to effective teaching by drawing on a research literature that provides precise estimates of the impact of students» achievement levels on their lifetime earnings, and by combining these figures with estimated impacts of more - effective
teachers on student achievement.
But we can calculate more prosaic economic values related to effective teaching, by drawing on a research literature that provides surprisingly precise estimates of the impact of student achievement levels on their lifetime earnings and by combining this with estimated impacts of more - effective
teachers on student achievement.
He notes that teachers» verbal skills have been shown to be related to the impact of
those teachers on student achievement.
The group had recently read a research brief high - lighting the effect of
teachers on student achievement as well as the inequitable distribution of teachers within districts, with higher - income, higher - performing schools getting the pick of the litter.
Using longitudinal data, this report looks at teachers between 2007 - 2008 and 2012 - 2013, as well as their students and schools, to investigate the degree to which value - added scores capture the impact of
teachers on student achievement gains rather than the influence of factors beyond the teachers» control.
VAM - based policies, particularly, place an exorbitantly over-estimated value on the impact of
teachers on student achievement scores.
Not exact matches
So
on this happy day, as the
students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone
achievement with their families, their friends, and their
teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.
The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively
on systemic school reform to address the
achievement deficits of disadvantaged
students: standards, testing,
teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus
on accountability.
«We are relying more than ever
on state exams — to measure
student achievement, to evaluate
teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.
Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward
teacher evaluations based
on multiple measures, including both
student progress
on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.
Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which
teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated
on the basis of
student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.
Cash noted through the bargain, the district is «working in close partnership with our
teachers and principals to build a solid track to run
on to more rapidly grow
student proficiency and overall
achievement well into the future.»
Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure
student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag
on using exams as part of
teacher evaluations.
Ms. Melendez disagrees, saying
student achievement on state assessments should not be used in any part of evaluating a
teacher.
Until now, most New York City
teachers have been rewarded based
on seniority or quantity of graduate education; neither has been shown to improve
student achievement.
«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent
on evaluating what great
teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased
student achievement,» Merriman said.
The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of
teacher evaluations based
on multiple measures of performance including
student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.
«We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the effects of large - scale
teacher retirements
on student achievement.
But those results were widely criticized by educators and software makers for lumping together the outcomes from many different products and for testing their impact
on student achievement in the 1st year the
teacher had used the material.
A new report from the Royal Society
on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level
students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current
teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure
student achievement.
Since the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect in 2002, more data than ever have been made available
on schools, the quality of their
teachers, and their
student achievement.
The turnover of high - performing
teachers is a challenging problem but, in DCPS, we find that the exit of high performers generally has small and statistically insignificant effects
on student achievement.»
Of the three alternative certification pathways studied,
teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest effect
on student achievement, substantially larger than that of traditionally prepared
teachers.
Not surprisingly, the more
teachers believed they could make a difference, the better both black and white
students scored
on achievement tests.
Although most reformers say that they want to raise
student achievement, many projects focus
on interim targets, like attracting more
students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science
teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.
The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance
student STEM engagement and
achievement in selected school districts via professional development for
teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights
on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.
The increase in
student achievement from coaching is
on par with the gain researchers typically see from
students of a veteran
teacher with five to 10 years of experience compared to a novice
teacher.
The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a
teacher's contribution to his or her
students» growth in math and English
achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy
on what really matters: classroom learning.
On average, today's
teachers are older and hence their preparation for teaching occurred when academic
achievement was not recognized as the primary purpose of schooling; their professional experience was in institutions that did not demand academic performance from them or their
students.
Education took center stage in Iowa's 2006 legislative session, resulting in measures to boost
teacher salaries, start a pilot program that bases
teacher pay
on student achievement, expand preschool, and establish statewide graduation requirements.
On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to
teachers in schools whose poorest
students make significant gains in
achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).
«The
teachers are [also] going to be learning how to plot
student achievement at one time
on a Guttman Chart and identify the Zones of Proximal Development, and target teaching at those.»
Anyone participating in the education policy debate for five years or more probably staked out their position
on the use of value - added (or
student achievement growth) in
teacher evaluations long ago.
Student achievement did not depend
on the money spent and only marginally
on the experience of
teachers (see essays by Eric Hanushek and Dan Goldhaber).
Peterson and Finn's previous podcasts: Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking
Teachers with
Student Achievement Data What Congress Is Not Working
On
And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact
on student achievement when high value - added
teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.
(10/8/09) Charter Schools Narrow
Achievement Gaps in New York City (10/1/09) What Congress Is Not Working
On (9/24/09) Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking
Teachers with
Student Achievement Data (9/17/09)
For instance, data may show that the
students who pass through one
teacher's class consistently score lower
on state
achievement tests than the
students in another
teacher's class.
Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely
on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading
achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether
teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for
students.
And the topics covered in those pages extend far beyond bread - and - butter questions of salary and benefits; there are dozens of clauses covering a district's ability to evaluate, transfer, terminate, and manage the workload of
teachers, all having potentially serious effects
on the management of schools and
student achievement.
Now, I won't sit here and say every time a
student struggles, it is the fault of the
teacher, but with that, when such happens, regardless of fault, as educators, it is our responsibility to redress the instruction and more importantly, our responsibility to reflect
on our instruction and identify where changes can be made to maximize the potential for
student achievement.
The Impact of
Student Composition
on Academic
Achievement in High School»,
Teachers College Record, 107 (9).