Bill Gates in his Washington Post article, http://tinyurl.com/47mxu7e How Teacher Development Could Revolutionize Our Schools suggests that one approach is to get more students in front of top teachers by identifying the top 25 percent of teachers and asking them to take on four or five more students. Part of the savings could then be […]
Student test data in assessing teacher quality.
January 13, 2011 by
A study released last month by the Gates Foundation supposedly offered up “some of the strongest evidence to date of the validity of ‘value-added’ analysis.” VAA makes the claim that teachers’ effectiveness can be reliably estimated by gauging their students’ progress on standardized tests. But Jesse Rothstein, an economist at UC Berkeley, argues that the analyses in the […]
What will become of The Education Test Generation
What happens in the classroom when a state begins to evaluate all teachers, at every grade level, based on how well they “grow” their students’ test scores? Colorado is about to find out. “This is a high-anxiety district to work in,” said one elementary school writing instructor in his second year as a Teach for […]