Sentences with phrase «using student test scores»

A key concept in the administration's view is using student test scores to evaluate teachers.

Testing as a tool of assessing student progress has been around since Day 1, but using student test scores as a measure of teacher effectiveness has caused a backlash in some quarters.

Without offering any actual evidence, Mr. Mucher suggests that prospective teachers have been scared off from applying to his program by much of the agenda of the corporate reform movement: increasing accountability demands placed on teachers, using student test scores to determine teachers» effectiveness ratings, and «the way teachers are blamed for much broader social problems.»

Excerpts from the discussion about using student test scores and other measures as part of the evaluation will follow tomorrow:

In December, the Massachusetts Teachers Association did become one of the first unions nationwide to release its own plan for using student test scores to help evaluate teachers.

The cover is stimulating significant pushback from educators and fueling ongoing and related conversations about teacher evaluations and the controversy over using student test scores in educator assessments.

Nine states so far have taken steps to compete, and Wisconsin was expected to vote Thursday to lift a ban on using student test scores to judge teachers.

There is no direct mention of grading teachers using student test scores, nor is there any direct mention of using letter grades to label schools.

Obama came to Wisconsin a day before state lawmakers here planned to vote to lift a ban on using student test scores to judge teacher performance.

Using student test scores to measure principal performance.

A few days before the Regents approved the APPR regulations, ten prominent researchers of assessment, teaching and learning wrote an open letter that included some of the following concerns about using student test scores to evaluate educators [1]:

The California legislature, for example, threw out a law that prohibited schools from using student test scores to evaluate teachers.

We were there to represent the views of the 1,508 New York principals and the 5,400 teachers, parents, school board members, professors and administrators who have signed on to the principals letter in opposition to using student test scores in teachers evaluation.

One of the more hot button debates in education over the past few years has been the issue of using student test scores to evaluate teachers.

Other issues, especially the evaluation of teachers using student test scores, are said to have been the final straw.

An Associated Press story on Monday showed Bennett, an outspoken proponent for school choice and for using student test scores to rate schools and teachers, had sent emails ordering changes to Indiana's A-F school grading system in 2012 when it appeared a favorite Indianapolis charter school would get a C.

The two sides face a Dec. 4 deadline to show proof that L.A. Unified has begun using student test scores in evaluations, as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge recently ruled is required under state law.

Teachers unions object to using student test scores to evaluate teachers.

President Obama has endorsed using student test scores to judge teachers and some state lawmakers have pushed to include value - added student data, a move that has been staunchly opposed by California teachers unions.

Yet while the idea of using student test scores for teacher evaluations may be conceptually appealing, there is no universally accepted methodology for translating student growth into a measure of teacher performance.

One critic of using student test scores to rate teachers said the study was «interesting» but not persuasive.

When Michelle Rhee was chancellor of D.C. public schools (2007 - 10), she was so enamored with using student test scores to evaluate adults that she implemented a system in which all adults in a school building, including the custodians, were in part evaluated by test scores.

Via The Los Angeles Times By the Editorial Board A new study out of USC and the University of Pennsylvania finds that value - added measurements — a way of using student test scores to evaluate teacher performance — aren't a very good way of judging teacher quality.

The teachers association, which endorsed Newsom, also asks candidates if they will oppose using student test scores as an element in determining teacher salaries; support collective bargaining for school employees; and oppose replacing the pension system for public employees with a 401k - style retirement plan.

All of his major proposals, except the economic stimulus financial windfall, have met with bipartisan resistance, including efforts to promote common standards and tests, teacher evaluations using student test scores and charter schools.

For example, in order to address concerns about the fairness of using student test scores to evaluate teachers, Hillsborough County Public Schools, in Tampa, Florida, decided early on to focus on the growth in test scores between two points in time rather than a static achievement measure captured only once a year.

I am looking forward to the class - action lawsuit that I'm filing as soon as we teachers are evaluated using student test scores.

Sure, RTTT got some states to lift caps on charter schools and eliminate some barriers to evaluating teachers using student test scores.

Education Advocate Michelle Rhee Fends Off Accusations Michelle Rhee, head of a group that advocates using student test scores to evaluate teachers, fends off accusations that she failed to pursue evidence of cheating when she ran the D.C. school system.

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

As well, districts that are headed in this direction (Washington DC) are using student test scores as part of a «mixed measures» approach, added to principal and peer evaluations.

The proposal to purchase the software drew criticism from teachers, community members and at least one school board member for using student test scores to evaluate teachers.

One would give schools a year off from receiving state report cards and using student test scores in teacher evaluations.

But he's worked before with the Latino Caucus which, like PEAC, pushes for a tougher stance against certain district policies, like reconstituting schools and using student test scores for teacher evaluations.

Several other researchers from Northridge have attempted to study the performance of their teachers after graduation by using student test scores from the classrooms of recent graduates, however.

By August 27, 2010, the Economic Policy Institute published an open letter, Problems with Using Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers.

Wisconsin lawmakers planned to vote Thursday to lift a ban on using student test scores to judge teachers.

Value - added analysis has been called one of the most sophisticated methods available to evaluate teachers using student test scores (Baker et al., 2010).

The district has launched a voluntary review program using student test scores as one measure of instructor effectiveness, but the teachers union has opposed it and filed an unfair labor practice complaint over the program's introduction without collective bargaining.

These policies, the union says, include using student test scores as one measure of a teacher's effectiveness.

So, it would seem that a system using student test scores to calculate how much «value» teachers add to their students» learning would be fairer.

Los Angeles parents planned to press for a court order Tuesday forcing the nation's second - largest school district to begin using student test scores in teacher evaluations by early September.

As an example, Tuck cited Torlakson's resistance to certain reforms, such as using student test scores to evaluate teachers, which helped cost California a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind regulations.

He also says using a student test scores to measure teacher performance is unfair.

Some have zeroed in on using student test scores as a way of measuring which teachers are most effective.

In place of using student test scores, the state Department of Education wants federal officials to permit California districts to use high school graduation rates and the participation rates of students in this spring's 11th — grade Smarter Balanced tests as measures of Adequate Yearly Progress in high schools.

Using student test scores to measure school leadership effectiveness is fraught with a number of psychometric and practical challenges that must be examined.

(There is a growing body of evidence that shows using student test scores to evaluate teachers is unreliable.

Absent federal demands, efforts to rethink teacher evaluation, using student test scores and emphasizing serious differentiation, would be a still - nascent effort in a dozen states as they worked through options to find the best methods.

Similarly, most parents (63 %) support using student test scores in deciding whether to award tenure — again, a policy opposed by the majority of teachers (62 %).