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Download full textJiang, 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
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
Direct linkJiang, 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
Hart, Holly; Healey, Kaleen; Sporte, Susan E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2014
Moving teacher evaluation systems from measuring teachers' performance to improving their practice requires much greater attention to communication and support. In the fall of 2012, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) instituted a sweeping reform of its teacher evaluation system with the introduction of REACH Students (Recognizing Educators Advancing…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Educational Change
White, Bradford R.; Cowhy, Jennifer; Stevens, W. David; Sporte, Susan E. – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2012
In a very short period during the spring and summer of 2012, researchers at the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) and the Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) collected data from respondents in five districts across Illinois to examine how school districts in the state approach designing and implementing new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Instructional Improvement
Sporte, Susan E.; Stevens, W. David; Healey, Kaleen; Jiang, Jennie; Hart, Holly – University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2013
This report focuses on the perceptions and experiences of teachers and administrators during the first year of REACH implementation, which was in many ways a particularly demanding year. These experiences can be helpful to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and to other districts across the country as they work to restructure and transform teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools
