Formal Evaluation by the Site director: Site directors serve as the main liaison between Drexel University and the school where the teacher candidate is placed. The site director is expected to visit ...

The test-linked teacher evaluation system was a form of stack ranking, where employees are rated, stacked in order of rating, and then the bottom chunk are fired. Microsoft jettisoned that system ...

In response to the recent national focus on measuring teacher performance, NIET recently released a report documenting TAP’s teacher evaluation ... We find that this forms the basis for a ...

And what should they do with the results? In general, teacher evaluation refers to the formal process a school uses to review and rate teachers’ performance and effectiveness in the classroom.

Massachusetts presents a novel approach that highly values evaluator judgment and uses test scores only as a check on the system. There has been a sea change in teacher evaluation over the past ...

Editor's note: The state Education Department regularly updates its list of school districts that have submitted teacher evaluation plans. Some districts, including Watervliet, were approved in ...

and various others are encouraging state governments to revise teacher evaluation systems to consider the impact of individual teachers on their students’ achievement. The states are responding.

While some teachers praise the evaluation system for pinpointing their weaknesses and helping them improve, others complain that the evaluators and instructional coaches are too rushed to spend ...

Tennessee's prekindergarten and kindergarten teacher evaluation system ... certain standards or students on the form used for the portfolio evaluation, which made it impossible to score.

Maine has broken with the status quo of test-centered accountability for teachers. Beginning with No Child Left Behind, public schools have committed to test-centered accountability, using student ...