Teacher evaluations: Where do we go from here?

05-24-2011

Blog by Anne O'Brien/Learning First

Teacher evaluation is an extremely hot topic these days. Districts from Houston to DC – and states from Indiana to Washington – are experimenting with new ways to measure teacher performance. But, as Dr. Laura Goe (principal investigator for the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and research scientist in the Performance Research Group at ETS) pointed out recently at the Learning First Alliance’s annual Leadership Council meeting, “Policy is way ahead of the research in teacher evaluation measures and models.” In reviewing the research to date on teacher evaluations, Dr. Goe reminded us that we don’t really know which evaluation model and/or combination of measures will identify effective teachers. And what stuck out to me from her presentation: She, a very accomplished researcher on this issue, doesn’t promote any of the models of teacher evaluation currently in use. (more...)

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