Unless everyone—students, teachers, administrators, schools, and school districts– is held accountable for student performance, there is not true accountability.
Archive for the ‘Evaluation’ Category
When Value-Added Does Not Add Value
March 20th, 2012
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The details of Wysocki’s truncated career at a D.C. elementary school presents a road map of the missteps possible when districts incorporate student standardized test scores in teacher evaluations.
How Good Evaluations Go Bad
July 12th, 2011
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by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader Evaluation of teachers is one of the hottest topics in the world of education. The conversation ranges from how much testing should count, to finding ways of incorporating it into the pay scale. Everyone knows that what we have is not working and there is pressure to develop a [...]
