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Shaw, Ryan D. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2016
Arts educators recently have found themselves in unfamiliar and sometimes-frustrating situations regarding their performance evaluations. The push for value-added models, effectiveness ratings based on schoolwide test score averages, portfolios, student learning objectives, and other measures of teacher effectiveness has dramatically changed arts…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational History
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Cohen, Julie; Brown, Michelle – New Educator, 2016
Districts are increasingly making personnel decisions based on teachers' impact on student-achievement gains and classroom observations. In some schools, however, a teacher's practices and their students' achievement may reflect not just individual but collaborative efforts. In other settings, teachers' instruction benefits less from the insights…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Merit Rating, Achievement Rating, Achievement Gains
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Sloane, Finbarr C.; Oloff-Lewis, Jennifer; Kim, Seong Hee – Irish Educational Studies, 2013
The government of Ireland, like many European countries, is currently under severe pressure from external forces to grow the economy. One possible way to maintain and grow its economy is through the production of a highly educated and globally competitive workforce. In an effort to develop such a workforce, the government, through the Department…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Accountability, Foreign Countries, Models
Isenberg, Eric; Hock, Heinrich – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
This report describes the value-added models used as part of teacher evaluation systems in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and in eligible DC charter schools participating in "Race to the Top." The authors estimated: (1) teacher effectiveness in DCPS and eligible DC charter schools during the 2011-2012 school year; and (2)…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Public Schools, Charter Schools
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
Wilson, Lucy R.; Mandell, Alan – 1981
The need for objectivity in evaluating faculty is briefly addressed, and a model by which professional activities may be quantified is presented. A list of possible activities ranked in groups of equal point value, by which faculty can generate merit points, is presented. An attempt was made to equalize the potential point production values in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Compensation (Remuneration), Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Evaluation
McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Lockwood, J. R.; Koretz, Daniel M.; Hamilton, Laura S. – RAND Corporation, 2003
Value-added modeling (VAM) to estimate school and teacher effects is currently of considerable interest to researchers and policymakers. Recent reports suggest that VAM demonstrates the importance of teachers as a source of variance in student outcomes. Policymakers see VAM as a possible component of education reform through improved teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Inferences, Models