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Jiang, Jennie Y.; Sartain, Lauren; Sporte, Susan E.; Steinberg, Matthew P. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
One of the most persistent and urgent problems facing education policymakers is the provision of highly effective teachers in all of the nation's classrooms. Of all school-level factors related to student learning and achievement, the student's teacher is consistently the most important (Goldhaber 2002; Rockoff 2004; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Sporte, Susan E.; Jiang, Jennie Y.; Luppescu, Stuart – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Starting in 2012-13, researchers have worked in partnership with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to study implementation of Chicago's new teacher evaluation system: Recognizing Educators Advancing Chicago's Students (REACH). This paper presents findings as well as experiences from the collaboration with CPS and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluators, Reliability, Teacher Attitudes
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Jiang, Jennie Y.; Sporte, Susan E.; Luppescu, Stuart – Educational Researcher, 2015
In the 2012-2013 school year, Chicago Public Schools unveiled its new teacher evaluation system in all of its almost 600 schools. This study draws on 32 interviews from a random sample of teachers and 2 years of survey data from more than 12,000 teachers per year to measure their perceptions of the clarity, practicality, and cost of the new…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Educational Change