- Assessing
teachers' effectiveness- Contains information and discussion concerning
the following conceptual aspects of assessing teachers' effectiveness:
purposes; category of teachers to be assessed; conceptions of teachers'
work; dimensions of teacher quality; approach to establishing validity
of assessments.
- Grading
the Graders- States are increasingly testing teachers to ensure
their competency, but do these tests fairly measure teaching skills
and improve the quality of education in the classroom?
- Less Truth Than Error?-
An independent study of the Massachusetts Teacher Test.
- Standards-Based
Reform: What is Missing?- Effective teachers.
- Teacher
Evaluation Policies and Practices- This report provides a review
of the literature with a list of criteria and recommendations for an
effective teacher evaluation process.
- Teacher Quality and Student
Achievement- A review of state policy evidence.
- Testing
Out the New Test for Would-Be Teachers- An article by Sandy Nager.
- The Quest
For Better Teachers: Grading The States- Most states are beginning
to get serious about boosting the quality of their teaching force. Unfortunately,
most of the steps they are taking point in the wrong direction. This
"report card" contains plenty of evidence of that fact-together with
some happy exceptions and hopeful signs.
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