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Evaluating the Quality of Teaching: Can There Be Valid Differentiation in the Middle of the Performance Distribution?
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Taut, Sandy; Jiménez, Daniela; Puente-Duran, Sofia; Palacios, Diego; Godoy, Maria Inés; Manzi, Jorge – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2019
An important challenge in evaluating the quality of teaching is to arrive at valid distinctions between teachers, particularly in the middle of the performance distribution. This study addressed this issue for the Chilean national teacher evaluation system. Mathematics teachers (N = 51) from the 2 middle adjacent performance categories, and their…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Job Performance, Mathematics Teachers
Master Teachers as Professional Developers: Managing Conflicting Versions of Professionalism
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Montecinos, Carmen; Pino, Mauricio; Campos-Martinez, Javier; Domínguez, Rosario; Carreño, Claudia – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
As education's main workforce, teachers have been the target of policies designed to shape and affirm new versions of professionalism. This paper examines this issue as it is exemplified by the Teachers of Teachers Network (TTN), a program developed by Chile's Ministry of Education. As a program designed to identify and reward high quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Teacher Performance and Student Learning: Linking Evidence from Two National Assessment Programmes
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Taut, Sandy; Valencia, Edgar; Palacios, Diego; Santelices, Maria V.; Jiménez, Daniela; Manzi, Jorge – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
This paper investigates the validity of a national, standards-based teacher evaluation programme by examining the relationship between teachers' evaluation results and their students' learning progress. We used census achievement data that assessed the same cohort of students at the end of 8th and 10th grade. We applied multilevel modelling and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, National Programs
Estimation of Teacher Practices Based on Text Transcripts of Teacher Speech Using a Support Vector Machine Algorithm
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Araya, Roberto; Plana, Francisco; Dartnell, Pablo; Soto-Andrade, Jorge; Luci, Gina; Salinas, Elena; Araya, Marylen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Teacher practice is normally assessed by observers who watch classes or videos of classes. Here, we analyse an alternative strategy that uses text transcripts and a support vector machine classifier. For each one of the 710 videos of mathematics classes from the 2005 Chilean National Teacher Assessment Programme, a single 4-minute slice was…
Descriptors: Transcripts (Written Records), Teaching Methods, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers
Perceived Effects and Uses of the National Teacher Evaluation System in Chilean Elementary Schools
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Taut, Sandy; Santelices, Maria Veronica; Araya, Carolina; Manzi, Jorge – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2011
This paper addresses the perceived consequences of the Chilean national teacher evaluation system. We interviewed 57 school leaders in 30 schools across 10 municipalities about effects and uses of the assessment in their schools. Results show that in the large majority of schools our interviewees observe positive effects such as increased teamwork…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
A Mandatory, High-Stakes National Teacher Evaluation System: Perceptions and Attributions of Teachers Who Actively Refuse to Participate
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Tornero, Bernardita; Taut, Sandy – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2010
This study examines why some public elementary school teachers openly refuse participation in a mandatory national, standards-based teacher evaluation program. We describe the perceptions these "rebel" teachers have of the evaluation system, studying their open resistance based on the meanings they construct, and elaborated an…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries