Did your formal evaluation give meaningful feedback to improve your teaching and leadership? Unfortunately, many teachers do not find their formal evaluations very meaningful or reflective of what ...
New Jersey and other states are scaling back test-score-driven teacher evaluations. Here's why the old numbers-based systems failed—and what should replace them ...
New teacher-evaluation policies are being implemented pretty much everywhere with rubrics, more-frequent classroom visits, student surveys, and value-added test data. As the stakes rise, teachers, ...
Billions have been spent on linking teacher evaluations to student test scores. But a new study finds the practice has had no overall effect on student achievement. We’ve spent billions trying to ...
Since 2009, more than 40 states have rewritten their teacher evaluation policies. Given that school systems have neglected to manage classroom instruction for decades, it was inevitable that many ...
Matthew M. Chingos Former Brookings Expert, Senior Fellow, Director of Education Policy Program - Urban Institute The federal government has spurred the creation of a new generation of teacher ...
How do we define teaching quality? How should teachers be evaluated? And how should school systems make use of the evaluations? Vivien Stewart, senior advisor to Asia Society and the author of the ...
Evaluations that look at 'performance'—such as essays or conversations (performance assessment)—have the difficulty of being ...
JOIN US for the 3rd National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Special Conference on Classroom Assessment hosted by CADRE and CU Boulder’s School of Education We are grateful to the William ...
New York City teachers would be judged more on their students’ classroom work and hands-on projects—rather than state test scores—under a proposal for new evaluations unveiled Wednesday by the city ...