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    Measurement makeover

    By Learning Forward
    December 2011
    Vol. 32 No. 6
    Hillsborough County (Fla.) Public Schools had a concern. A review in 2008 of teacher evaluations in the district found that more than 99% of the 12,000 teachers were rated satisfactory or outstanding, and nearly half of high school teachers received perfect scores. While Hillsborough is a high-performing district and has several high schools on Newsweek’s 2010 list of the nation’s best, many in the district agreed the evaluations must be misleading — but there was no way to know exactly how the ratings matched up to student learning. And teachers and administrators alike didn’t know exactly how to describe what the evaluations were supposed to do: What does exceptional teaching look like? Teachers were laboring under an unequal system of evaluation from school to school.

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    Authors

    Valerie von Frank

    Valerie von Frank (valerievonfrank@aol.com) is an education writer and editor of Learning Forward’s books. 

    References

    Goe, L. & Croft, A. (2009, March). Methods of evaluating teacher effectiveness: Research-to-practice brief. Washington, DC: National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.

    Hillsborough County Public Schools. (n.d.). Leading change in Hillsborough County Public Schools. Tampa, FL: Author. Available at https://communication.sdhc.k12.fl.us/eethome/casestudies. 

    Measures of Effective Teaching Project. (2010, December). Learning about teaching: Initial findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project. Seattle, WA: Author. 

    McCaffrey, D.F., Lockwood, J.R., Koretz, D.M., & Hamilton, L.S. (2003). Evaluating value-added models for teacher accountability. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Available online at www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG158.pdf. 

    National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. (2011). Student learning, student achievement: How do teachers measure up? Arlington, VA: Author.

    Rockoff, J.E. & Speroni, C. (2011, October). Subjective and objective evaluations of teacher effectiveness: Evidence from New York City. Labour Economics, 18(5), 687-696.

    Weisberg, D., Sexton, S., Mulhern, J., & Keeling, D. (2009). The widget effect. Santa Cruz, CA: The New Teacher Project.

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