Grading Teachers, Grading Schools: Is Student Achievement a Valid Evaluation Measure?
In an extensive review of teacher and school evaluation, one is not likely to find an issue more divisive than the question of how best, in high-stakes contexts, to evaluate how well teachers and schools accomplish their task of educating students.\ This book explores four contemporary approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of teachers and schools.
Search in google:
In an extensive review of teacher and school evaluation, one is not likely to find an issue more divisive than the question of how best, in high-stakes contexts, to evaluate how well teachers and schools accomplish their task of educating students. This book explores four contemporary approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of teachers and schools.
About the AuthorsPt. IOrigins and Underpinnings1Beginnings and Introduction3Pt. IIThe Oregon Teacher Work Sample Methodology2The Oregon Teacher Work Sample Methodology: Rationale and Background113Teacher Work Sample Methodology as Used at Western Oregon State College154Oregon Teacher Work Sample Methodology: Potential and Problems465Oregon Teacher Work Sample Methodology: Educational Policy Review536Reflections on Comments by Airasian and Stufflebeam62Pt. IIIThe Dallas Value-Added Accountability System7In the Beginning758The Dallas Value-Added Accountability System819Value-Added Productivity Indicators: The Dallas System10010On Trial: The Dallas Value-Added Accountability System11011Little Practical Difference and Pie in the Sky: A Response to Thum and Bryk and a Rejoinder to Sykes120Pt. IVThe Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System12The Impetus for the Tennessee Value-Added Accountability System13313The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System: A Quantitative, Outcomes-Based Approach to Educational Assessment13714The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System: A Challenge to Familiar Assessment Methods16315Assessment Requires Incentives to Add Value: A Review of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System16916Response to the Reviewers179Pt. VThe Kentucky Instructional Results Information System17Historical Background: The Kentucky School Accountability Index18518Kentucky's Accountability and Assessment Systems19119Measurement Quality of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System, 1991-199421020Overview and Assessment of the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System21921The Kentucky Instructional Results Information System Meets the Critics: A Little Light and Much Heat228Pt. VISynthesis and Perspectives22How Do I Judge Thee? Let Me Count the Ways24323Toward What End? The Evaluation of Student Learning for the Improvement of Teaching24824The Moth and the Flame: Student Learning as a Criterion of Instructional Competence264Author Index275Subject Index278
