(click here for full article) (click here to download a PDF of this article) By David N. Figlio, University of Florida and Maurice E. Lucas, Alachua County Schools Education Next, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2004. p. 60-68. Briefing This study found that students taught by tough-grading teachers learn more in school. Unfortunately, it also found that parents have a more favorable view of teachers who are easy-graders. Author David N. Figlio is a professor of economics … Read More
To Build a Better Teacher: The Emergence of a Competitive Education Industry (click here for full article) (click here to download a PDF of this article) By Robert Gray Holland Senior Fellow, Lexington Institute Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003 Briefing Most education professors have a vision of education that differs radically from that of the primary consumers of public education. While clear majorities of parents, teachers, and civic leaders want K-12 schools to ensure basic skills — … Read More
References From Table 1, page 29 of Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed? By Dan Goldhaber & Emily Anthony Bond, L., Smith, T., Baker, W. K., and Hattie, J. A. (2000). The certification system of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: A construct and consequential validity study. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. Cohen, J. (1969). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. New York: Academic Press. Cohen, J. (1988). … Read More
Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed? (click here for full article) (Click here to download the PDF of this article) By Dan Goldhaber University of Washington Center for Reinventing Public Education Emily Anthony Urban Institute Briefing Teachers pay $2,300 to be assessed by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). They earn pay increases up to $7,500 per year if successful. To date, NBPTS has certified over 30,000 teachers. Despite widespread reports to the contrary, the … Read More
In Tennessee and several other states, teacher effectiveness can be assessed on the basis of annual student achievement gains. Although there are exceptions like the reports that were undertaken by the Los Angeles Times, value added data by levels of teacher performance within school districts is rarely available to the public. That said, even district averages are of value in assessing the quality of teacher hiring, retention, and oversight As can be seen in the charts below, there are substantial differences between … Read More
Number of High and Low Performing New Teachers from Tennessee’s Public Universities and Teach for America According to the 2011 Report Card on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training Programs published by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, teachers trained by Teach for America are significantly more effective than are the graduates of Tennessee’s publicly funded universities. The good news is that all programs are turning out some exceptionally effective teachers but the bad news is that far too … Read More
How Effective are Tennessee’s Teacher Preparation Programs? Tennessee’s Value Added Assessment System has been in place since 1995. It enables users to estimate the success of teachers, schools, and districts in lifting student achievement and it does so in a way that permits statistically fair comparisons. Since 2007, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission has published a report card that uses the TVAAS data to estimate success of Tennessee’s teacher preparation programs in graduating “highly effective” new teachers. Highly … Read More
Recent studies have made it clear that significant differences in ability to improve student achievement exist among fully trained and experienced teachers. J. E. Stone’s paper argues that these differences reflect the education community’s view that student achievement is not public education’s highest priority. Rather, achievement is only one valued outcome among many, and it often suffers from inattention. The education community’s priorities are consistent with ideals that have been taught in teacher training programs for decades, but especially since the sixties. They have come … Read More
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Teaching is a highly trained and regulated profession; yet despite all of its rules, standards, enforcement agencies and oversight bodies, the performance of many practicing teachers is so poor as to be detrimental to students. The reason is that the evaluative process is largely controlled by the profession to suit its own standards—not those of the parents and taxpayers that it serves. One effect of this self-regulated process is that the public’s priorities are not necessarily those of … Read More