Sentences with phrase «unreliable measure of teacher effectiveness»

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On the third point, Hess explains that value - added measures of teacher effectiveness are too imprecise and unreliable when just a few years of data are used to judge individual teachers.

In January, a Richmond, Virginia judge ruled in Virginia SGP's favor, despite the state's claims that Virginia school districts, despite the state's investments, had reportedly not been using the SGP data, «calling them flawed and unreliable measures of a teacher's effectiveness.»

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and