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Rodriguez, Luis A.; Swain, Walker A.; Springer, Matthew G. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
The federal Race to the Top initiative signified a shift in American education policy whereby accountability efforts moved from the school to the teacher level. Using administrative data from Tennessee, we explore whether evaluation reforms differentially influenced mobility patterns for teachers of varying effectiveness. We find that the rollout…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Teacher Transfer
Koedel, Cory; Li, Jiaxi; Springer, Matthew G.; Tan, Li – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Spurred by the federal Race to the Top competition, the state of Tennessee implemented a comprehensive statewide educator evaluation system in 2011. The new system is designed to increase the rigor of evaluations and better differentiate teachers based on performance. The use of more differentiated ratings represents a significant shift in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Public School Teachers, Job Satisfaction, State Programs