These effects, rather, might have been more likely caused by bias given the types of students non-randomly assigned to teachers» classrooms versus «
true teacher effects.»
Researchers find that no VAM «accurately captures
true teacher effects in all scenarios, and the potential for misclassifying teachers as high - or low - performing can be substantial [emphasis added].»
Not exact matches
The net
effect of growing charter schools, closing under - enrolled traditional public schools, and only hiring back the best and most desired
teachers from those schools is a
true merit pay system.
To take just one example, one of the most disturbing negative
effects of test - based accountability is that many young
teachers have been trained specifically to use bad test prep — test prep that generates bogus gains in scores rather than
true improvements in learning.
If
teachers tend to rely more on lectures when assigned more capable or attentive students, this would generate a positive relationship between the amount of time spent lecturing and student achievement, even in the absence of a
true causal
effect.
Most Head Start
teachers hold a bachelors degree and that held
true for Gerde's sample but she and her team found previous education had no
effect on the amount of science instruction
teachers offered.
The trend is that instead of having such figures with 99 % of
teachers being rated as satisfactory or above (see «The Widget
Effect» report here), these new and improved
teacher evaluation systems are to distribute
teachers» evaluation scores around a normal curve, that is more likely
true, whereas many more
teachers are to be identified for their ineffectiveness.
Unfortunately, the opposite is
true as well: if a student has an ineffective
teacher, the negative
effect on her achievement may not be fully remediated for up to three years.»
So a VA model that identifies
teachers»
true effects should show no
effect of 5th grade
teachers on their students» 3rd grade test scores two years earlier.