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An Initial Analysis and Reflection of the Metrics Used in the Teaching Excellence Framework in the UK
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Gillard, J. W. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
In this paper, we look at the results from the recent Teaching Excellence Framework (2017), which were made publicly available in June 2017. We offer some initial analysis and commentary, look at the primary reasons for providers being awarded Bronze, Silver and Gold, and look at some providers close to the borderline for their award. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Benchmarking, Teacher Evaluation
When the Stakes Are High, Can We Rely on Value-Added? Exploring the Use of Value-Added Models to Inform Teacher Workforce Decisions
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Goldhaber, Dan – Center for American Progress, 2010
The formula is simple: Highly effective teachers equal student academic success. Yet, the physics of American education is anything but. Thus, the question facing education reformers is how can teacher effectiveness be accurately measured in order to improve the teacher workforce? Given the demand for objective, quantitative measures of teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Models, Merit Pay
Assessing the Potential of Using Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Job Performance for Making Tenure Decisions. Brief 3
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Goldhaber, Dan; Hansen, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2008
This research brief presents selected findings from work examining the stability of value-added model estimates of teacher effectiveness and their implication for tenure policies. Findings show year-to-year correlations in teacher effects are modest, but pre-tenure estimates of teacher job performance do predict estimated post-tenure performance…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Tenure, Teacher Selection, Job Performance
More than Measurement: The TAP System's Lessons Learned for Designing Better Teacher Evaluation Systems
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Jerald, Craig D.; Van Hook, Kristan – National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2011
Teacher evaluation has emerged as a major focus for reform at the highest levels of education policymaking, and for good reason. Most evaluations are based on scant evidence of actual effectiveness, produce inflated ratings, and provide teachers with little useful feedback. This paper offers policymakers and practitioners important "lessons…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation
Exploring the Possibility and Potential for Pay for Performance in America's Public Schools
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Ellerson, Noelle M. – American Association of School Administrators, 2009
In response to a growing dialogue at the local, state and national levels around the idea of restructuring teacher pay to include performance measures, the American Association of School Administrators surveyed a randomly selected sample of its members to gauge their feedback and interest in pay-for-performance programs. AASA launched this survey…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Merit Pay, Merit Rating, Administrator Attitudes
Pay-for-Performance in Education: An Issue Brief for Business Leaders.
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 2000
Implementing pay-for-performance salary structures has been used successfully in business and can result in benefits for educational systems when implemented along with other compensation reforms. Business leaders can help in the implementation of teacher pay-for-performance systems in the following ways: (1) ensure that pay-for-performance plans…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Performance