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TitleMeasuring and Improving the Effectiveness of High School Teachers
Publication TypeReport
Year of Publication2008
Corporate AuthorsAlliance for Excellent Education
Date Published03/2008
PublisherAlliance for Excellent Education
CityWashington, D.C.
Education LevelSecondary
KeywordsAdult, Environment, High Schools, Job-embedded PD, Legislature, Measuring Effectiveness, Performance Levels, Policy Makers, Professional Development, Research, Secondary, Student Learning Gains, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Quality, Value-added analysis, Workplace
Abstract

Most education reformers agree that effective teaching is defined by improving student learning, but they disagree on how to measure teacher effectiveness and how to use those measurements to improve teaching. Thus far, most of the policy debate on teacher effectiveness has focused on using test scores to implement merit pay or to fire teachers, but those strategies alone will not lift teacher performance on a large scale. In order to improve high school teaching, educators and policymakers must first invest in solid, objective ways to measure a teacher’s effectiveness. Currently, many experts believe that the best method is to use “value-added” analysis, a statistical method described in more detail in this brief.
URLhttp://www.all4ed.org/files/TeacherEffectiveness.pdf