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 ...
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 ...
Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles speaks during a press conference on Jan. 17, 2024. Hours before the state-installed management board of Houston ISD approved a new system for evaluating the ...
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, ...
When Michelle Rhee, then chancellor of the D.C. public schools, announced a radical plan to rate teachers’ effectiveness on a numerical scale, then fire the worst and give the best huge pay hikes, ...
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Houston ISD's proposed evaluation system is largely in line with current research and practices, according to some experts, who raised some concerns about frequent classroom spot observations and ...
A teacher who is optimistic about AI’s potential in education is nevertheless adamant about not using it to give students ...
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 ...
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 ...