State Level Policy
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
Summary: Initial Findings and Major Questions About HOUSSE The “high objective uniform state standard of evaluation,” or HOUSSE, is a key component to the definition of a highly qualified teacher. It is a system through which existing teachers can demonstrate knowledge of their subject area without necessarily having to undertake further training or take a test. This policy brief summarizes initial findings and trends from ECS' state policy HOUSSE database.
Recent State Policies/Activities: Teaching Quality--Evaluation - Collection from the ECS state policy database.
Title II State Reports 2006 - Title II of the Higher Education Act requires each state receiving funding under the act to report annually on the quality of teacher preparation in the state, including alignment of teacher standards, requirements for certification, pass rates, performance standards, teachers on waivers and state efforts to improve teaching quality.
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: 10 Elements of Quality Teacher Evaluation
Author: Connecticut State Department of Education
Date: URL: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2641&q=320432
Summary: 10 quality indicators for local districts from the State Agency
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Title: Teacher Evaluation Conference: Sharing Research and Best Practices
Author: Ohio State Department of Education
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Summary: Includes speaker bios and Power Point presentations from this state level conference
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Title: State Teacher Policy Yearbook
Author: NCTQ
Date: 2008
URL: http://www.nctq.org/stpy08/
Summary: Includes state-level data about different Teacher Quality goals, including teacher evaluation.
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Title: Teacher Evaluation as a Policy Target for Improved Student Learning: A Fifty-State Review of Statute and Regulatory Action since NCLB
Author: Helen M. Hazi, Daisy Arredondo Rucinski
Date: March, 2009
URL: http://hub.mspnet.org/index.cfm/17948
Summary: "This paper reports on the analysis of state statutes and department of education regulations in fifty states for changes in teacher evaluation in use since the passage of No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. We asked what the policy activity for teacher evaluation is in state statutes and department of education regulations, how these changes in statutes and regulations might affect the practice of teacher evaluation, and what were the implications for instructional supervision from these policy actions. Teacher evaluation statutes and department of education regulations provided the data for this study, using archival records from each state's legislature and education departments that were placed into a comparison matrix based on criteria developed from the National Governors Association (NGA) goals for school reform (Goldrick, 2002). Data were analyzed deductively in terms of these criteria for underlying theories of action (Malen, 2005), trends, and likely effects on teacher evaluation and implications for supervision. The majority of states adopted many of the NGA strategies, asserted oversight and involvement in local teacher evaluation practices, decreased the frequency of veteran teacher evaluation, and increased the types of data used in evaluation. Whether or not the changes in teacher evaluation will improve student learning in the long run remains to be seen."
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