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Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems

by Jennifer L. Steele, Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher

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Many existing teacher evaluation and reward systems do not capture variation in teachers' ability to improve student performance on standardized tests. Improved access to longitudinal data systems that link teachers to students facilitates the development of systems that incorporate student achievement gains into teacher evaluations. However, two important challenges remain: generating valid estimates of teachers' contributions to student learning and including teachers who do not teach subjects or grades that are tested annually.

In their analysis of the systems of three districts and two states that have begun or are planning to incorporate measures of student performance into their teacher evaluations, the authors examine how the five profiled systems are addressing assessment quality, evaluating teachers in nontested subjects and grades, and assigning teachers responsibility for particular students. The authors also examine what is and is not known about the quality of various student performance measures used by school systems and offer recommendations to policymakers about approaches to consider when incorporating student achievement measures into teacher evaluation systems.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    Using Multiple Measures to Assess Teachers' Effectiveness

  • Chapter Three

    How Are New Teacher Evaluation Systems Incorporating Multiple Measures?

  • Chapter Four

    How Are the New Teacher Evaluation Systems Addressing Key Measurement Quality Challenges?

  • Chapter Five

    Policy Recommendations and Conclusion

This work was sponsored by the Center for American Progress with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The research was conducted in RAND Education, a unit of the RAND Corporation.

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