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How Principals Identify Low-Performing Teachers in Public Schools? Evidence from Chile
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Felipe Aravena – Journal of Pedagogy, 2023
This research aims to explore how school principals determine whether they have low-performing teachers among their staff. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 principals in Chilean public schools. The qualitative research entailed an inductive approach, along with an interview methodology and content analysis to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Public Schools, Low Achievement
Race to the Classroom: The Governance Turn in Latin American Education. The Emerging Era of Accountability, Control and Prescribed Curriculum
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Rivas, Axel; Sanchez, Belen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
During the first years of the new century, Latin America went through significant political changes in a period of economic growth. In education, we identify a 'regulatory governance turn' characterised by the emergence of four policy instruments: 1-New performance-based teaching career regulations with teachers' evaluations, 2-Curricular…
Descriptors: Governance, Accountability, High Stakes Tests, Foreign Countries
Within the Teacher Evaluation Policies Black Box: Two Case Studies
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Vaillant, Denise; Gonzalez-Vaillant, Gabriela – Teacher Development, 2017
This paper analyzes the relationship between teacher evaluation policies in Chile and Uruguay, teacher professional development, and teacher performance effectiveness. The analysis tries to understand the extent to which the existing processes for teacher evaluation stimulate an improvement in the quality of teaching. The comparison of two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Policy, Faculty Development
Validation of a National Teacher Assessment and Improvement System
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Taut, Sandy; Santelices, Maria Veronica; Stecher, Brian – Educational Assessment, 2012
The task of validating a teacher assessment and improvement system is similar whether the system operates in the United States or in another country. Chile has a national teacher evaluation system (NTES) that is standards based, uses multiple instruments, and is intended to serve both formative and summative purposes. For the past 6 years the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Standards
Teacher Evaluation: Current Practices in OECD Countries and a Literature Review. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 23
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Isore, Marlene – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
This paper discusses the most relevant issues concerning teacher evaluation in primary and secondary education by reviewing the recent literature and analysing current practices within the OECD countries. First, it provides a conceptual framework highlighting key features of teacher evaluation schemes. In particular, it emphasises the importance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Moving from Resistance to Agreement: The Case of the Chilean Teacher Performance Evaluation
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Avalos, Beatrice; Assael, Jenny – International Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The paper discusses the process whereby a system of teacher evaluation was established in Chile through a lengthy and complicated process of negotiations between the three main institutions concerned: the Teachers' Union, the Association of Chilean Municipalities (managers of the public school system) and the Ministry of Education. The process is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Accountability, Teacher Evaluation