7:15 pm: Juan asks DioGuardi: The NYC Department of Education is poised to release to the public in the coming
weeks Teacher Data Reports, which are based on student scores on state tests.
Not exact matches
Newsday deems Cuomo's
teacher evaluation
data bill introduced this
week «almost good enough to support.»
Former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin says Cuomo «seems to be straddling the school - accountability line he drew eight
weeks ago» by suggesting he's opening to limiting the public release of
teacher evaluation
data.
Last
week, we were confronted with a bill presented by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conference that would essentially provide for a two - year moratorium on the APPR (
teacher evaluations) while establishing some restrictions regarding use of a student's personal
data.
Controversial
Teacher Data Reports produced by the Department of Education in 2008 and 2009 may be released to the media in the coming
weeks after the state's highest court refused to hear the UFT's appeal to block their publication.
The
data was gathered and analyzed by a team led by Michigan Technological University and the STEM Education Center at the University of Minnesota asked for feedback from nearly 40
teachers in a three -
week professional development program about STEM education.
So on a bright November afternoon three
weeks after the test, Hope's math specialist, Christine Madison, and two of the school's 4th - grade
teachers huddled over five pages of test - score
data assembled for them by ANet.
The book profiles heroic charter school
teachers and leaders and chronicles their 80 - hour work
weeks, their meetings in
teacher's homes to retool instruction because of new
data, and their personal commitment to taking students to visit colleges.
The report also has exclusive Education
Week Research Center survey
data showing
teachers» perspectives on the present and future status of educational technology.
Nationally, 12 percent of all public school
teachers are in their first or second year, according to an Education
Week analysis of new
data from the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights.
Teachers at the school collect
data on student progress every five
weeks and use it to inform their fortnightly collaborative professional learning sessions and planning.
Humboldt
teachers have grade - level meetings every
week to review their
data together and strategize, as well as sharing tips and practices.
West Virginia's school report cards include little of the
teacher - qualification
data tracked by Education
Week.
But according to the best available
data,
teachers work around 40 hours per
week, including work outside of the classroom, about the same as nonteachers.
On Top of the News Missing, Messy
Teacher - Prep
Data Stumps Even Federal Watchdog Ed
Week Teacher Beat 7/24/15
Companies Honing Tools to Survey Students About
Teachers Education
Week, 8/27/14 «The hope for me, and for Panorama, is really that this has an impact on the caliber of
data we get back,» [Associate Professor Hunter] Gehlbach said.
Their new report rehashes a decade - old debate over that technical issue, which is related to their 2008 claim that «all of the
data available show that
teachers work at least as many hours each work
week as comparable college graduates.»
As they did in the 2008 report, Allegreto and Mishel rely on the weekly wages reported by public school
teachers in the Current Population Survey, leading to confusion about whether the wage
data refer to annual salary divided by 52
weeks or by some smaller number of
weeks that reflects
teachers» shorter work year.
Students meet with a P.E.
teacher once a
week to download the
data from their monitor to her computer and discuss their workouts.
Simon Green, class
teacher, has used the energy
data and meter readings to set a series of tasks for pupils to analyse energy usage and compare consumption over
weeks, months and years.
Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and
data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school
teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last
week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.
In a major study we released this
week together with Education Reform Now, How Strong Are U.S.
Teacher Unions: A State - By - State Comparison, we dug deep, churning vast amounts of
data to parse the differences in political strength across state - level unions in the fifty states plus the District of Columbia.
And of the
teacher - qualification information tracked by Education
Week, the state reports
data only on out - of - field teaching in its school report cards.
Long - term observation and measurement reduce the chance that random factors, such as a
teacher's bad
week, are corrupting the
data.
The percent of 4th grade students whose
teachers say they've received training on how to integrate computers into their classroom instruction has remained flat since 2009, according to a new Education
Week Research Center analysis of survey
data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
The district and United
Teachers Los Angeles have forged a tentative agreement on the new system — which union members will vote on next
week — that does not yet clarify how testing
data will be used or how much it will count in the overall rating.
The Research Center does surveys such as the 2016 Mindset in the Classroom: A National Study of K - 12
Teachers and also collects and analyzes
data to support Education
Week's investigative and enterprise reporting in numerous areas of public concern.
The service eliminates
weeks of manual setup at the start of the school year and gives
teachers nearly real - time access to assessment
data.
Teachers» leaders last
week accused exam boards of creating a «massive muddle» after Ofqual
data revealed that almost 74,000 GCSE grades were changed this summer, compared with just over 48,000 last year.
Teachers only receive real
data on how students are doing every few
weeks, and they don't have a lot of time to do anything with it.
According to the NORC survey
data from the current decade, about 37 percent of
teachers say they attend church one or more times per
week, while 26 percent of other Americans say they do so.
The deal, reached last
week after months of intense negotiation, would allow
data from the tests and other sources to be used as one measure of
teachers» effectiveness for the first time.
Raichoudhuri meets with freshmen
teachers three times per
week to examine individual student
data, tracking student grades in each class with a particular focus on core classes.
Not only was the principal committed to the use of assessment
data for identifying and addressing student learning needs, she delivered
data - use training for
teachers, and she sat in on grade - level team meetings to facilitate
teachers «use of assessment
data in their planning of six -
week tutoring cycles.
In addition, a third organization — Educators 4 Excellence, which represents more than 800
teachers, is also planning to endorse the use of student achievement
data when it unveils its own proposal for a new
teacher evaluation system in coming
weeks.
Schools face having to free up a
teacher to work three days every
week on EU
data protection issues, say tech experts.
Last
week, classroom
teachers voted overwhelmingly to approve a new system of evaluations, which include
data from California Standardized Tests.
At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating
teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own pu
teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this
week from American Federation of
Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own pu
Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score
data for their own purposes).
Teachers involved in both new proposals said it was urgent to break the impasse and move forward — especially as a parent lawsuit aiming to force L.A. Unified to use student achievement
data in evaluations is expected to go to trial next
week.
As pointed out on this
week's Dropout Nation Podcast on school turnarounds, student achievement
data will drive how principals evaluate and assign
teachers; it is already beginning to reshape how
teachers instruct in classrooms and address the nation's education crisis.
What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school
data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance
teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive
teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth
data, a subject of this
week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.
Talent Development Secondary believes
teacher teams must have access to EWI (early warning indicator)
data at least every two
weeks so they can work collaboratively on lists of students who are showing signs of falling off track.
Earlier this
week, I wrote about one major theme of the conference, that the
data from personalized learning software is useless for
teachers.
Earlier this
week, FiveThirtyEight, founded by
data whiz Nate Silver, posted a feature on the application of value - added models to the evaluation of K - 12
teachers.
As per an article published last
week, the Virginia Supreme Court overruled this former ruling, noting that the department of education did not have to provide
teachers» identifiable information along with
teachers» SGP
data, after all.
At Dayton's Bluff Elementary, grade - level teams of
teachers use release time to review classroom - based assessment
data, discuss instructional strategies, and plan for each upcoming six -
week period.
Schools
Week analysis of new
data from the education unions shows that although there were 15,065 fewer people working in secondary schools in 2017 than in 2014,
teachers are still teaching roughly the same numbers of pupils, despite a rise of almost 4,500 over the same period.
As Dropout Nation noted last
week in its report on
teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying
teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score
data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.
E4E - LA
teacher April Bain says LA's new evaluations, which will now be required to include student achievement
data because of this
week's court ruling, will...
This cycle was repeated once every six
weeks throughout the year with Alicia's support, and
teachers used the compiled
data to identify changes in student scores.