Improving Teacher Evaluation Systems: Making the Most of Multiple Measures

Jason A. Grissom, Peter Youngs

Teachers College Press, Nov 22, 2015 - Education - 208 pages

This is the first book to pull together what we have learned about the impacts and challenges of data-intensive teacher evaluation systemsa defining characteristic of the current education policy landscape. Expert researchers and practitioners speak to what we know (and what remains to be known) about evaluation measures themselves, the implementation of evaluation systems, and the use of evaluation data. The authors argue that rigorous teacher evaluation systems have the potential to promote school improvement but only if the systems are carefully designed and implemented and the data they generate are interpreted and used appropriately. This timely and important volume will be relevant and useful to school and district administrators, policymakers, researchers, and teacher education institutions grappling with issues of teacher accountability and school leadership.

Contents

• Making the Most of Multiple Measures: 1
• Observations on Evaluating Teacher PerformanceAssessing the Strengths and Weaknesses of Classroom Observations and ValueAdded Measures: 8
• Implementing Rigorous Observation of TeachersSynchronizing Theory with Systems for Implementation and Support: 22
• The Multiple Dimensions of Teacher QualityDoes ValueAdded Capture Teachers Nonachievement Contributions to Their Schools?: 37
• Potential Pitfalls in the Use of Teacher ValueAdded Data: 51
• Special Education Teacher EvaluationAn Examination of Critical Issues and Recommendations for Practice: 63
• Using Student Surveys at the Elementary and Secondary Levels: 77
• The Role of edTPA in Assessing ContentSpecific Instructional Practices: 89
• Teachers Use of Evaluation for Instructional Improvement and School Supports for Such Use: 102
• Development or Dismissal?Exploring Principals Use of Teacher Effectiveness Data: 116
• Implementing Student Learning Objectives and Classroom Observations in Connecticuts Teacher Evaluation System: 131
• Using Multiple Measures for Developmental Teacher Evaluation: 143
• Teacher Evaluation in Michigan: 156
• Multiple Measures in Teacher EvaluationLessons Learned and Guidelines for Practice: 169
• About the Contributors: 185
• Index: 191

About the author

Jason A. Grissom is associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Peter Youngs is associate professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Improving Teacher Evaluation Systems: Making the Most of Multiple Measures
• Editors: Jason A. Grissom, Peter Youngs
• Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2015
• ISBN: 080775739X, 9780807757390
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General