Teacher Evaluation (General)
Title: New Trends in Teacher Evaluation
Author: Charlotte Danielson
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URL: http://www.schools.utah.gov/charterschools/training/2008-2009/NewTrends.pdf
Summary: Expands upon the author’s view of elements needed for effective teacher evaluation systems
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Title: Teacher Effectiveness and Evaluation: What States are Doing
Author: Education Commission of the States
Date: various
URL: http://wwww.ecs.org/html/IssueSection.asp?issueid=129&subissueid=62&ssID=0&s=What+States+Are+Doing
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Everyone's Doing it, But What Does Teacher Testing Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness? - This paper explores the relationship between teacher testing using a unique dataset from North Carolina that links teachers to their individual students. The report finds a small positive relationship between teacher licensure tests and student achievement. The findings also suggest that states face significant tradeoffs when they require particular performance levels as a precondition to becoming a teacher, as "some teachers whom we might wish were not in the teacher workforce based on their contribution toward student achievement are eligible to teach based on their performance on these tests, while other individuals who would be effective teachers are ineligible."
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Title: Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education
Author: Tom Toch and Robert Rothman (Education Sector)
Date: January 2008
URL: http://www.educationsector.org/usr_doc/RushToJudgment_ES_Jan08.pdf
Summary: This report explores the causes and consequences of the crisis in teacher evaluation. And it examines a number of national, state, and local evaluation systems that point to a way out of the evaluation morass. Together, they demonstrate that it’s possible to evaluate teachers in much more productive ways than most public schools do today.
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Title: Teacher Voice on Teacher Evaluations
Author: Teacher Leader Network
Date: April 2009
Summary: In a recent joint interview with the New York group TeachersCount, Anthony Cody and David B. Cohen described some fundamental changes they'd like to see in teacher evaluation and assessment -- and warned of the consequences of a narrow approach to making judgments about teaching quality.
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Title: Improving Teacher Evaluation to Improve Teaching Quality
Author: Our very own Liam Goldrick (NGA)
Date: December 2002
URL: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/59/d0.pdf
Summary: Suggestions for improving teacher evaluation
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Title: The Widget Effect
Author: The New Teacher Project
Date: June 2009
Summary: Describes how the system treats teachers as interchangeable parts.
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Title: So Long Lake Wobegon? Using Teacher Evaluation to Raise Teacher Quality
Author: Morgean Donaldson
Date: June 2009
URL: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/teacher_evaluation.html
Summary: Report focuses on how best to implement teacher evaluation with a three-pronged approach – the role of student learning in assessments; the reasons why teacher evaluation has historically had little impact on learning; and why current conditions are different from before and why we can expect the system to change now.
Donaldson concludes that a multi-method approach to assessments of teacher effectiveness is best, including observation, performance-based assessments, portfolios and value-added analyses. She also asserts that school culture needs to change.
The report ends with seven recommendations that evaluation programs must address in order to have the best chance of improving teaching quality and student learning.
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Title: Performance Management: Getting it Right From the Start
Author: Leslie Weatherly
Date: 9/10/09
Summary: A private sector perspective on evaluating performance.
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