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Thomas C. Fuller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Each year in the United States, school district officials spend significant time and effort evaluating teacher effectiveness. Teacher evaluation procedures have evolved through the years from a process by which local officials monitored teacher practices to assure conformity to one in which teachers and administrators work collaboratively using…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Small Schools, Teacher Effectiveness
Bradley, Ankhe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation in practice will focus on gaining insights into the relationship between money spent on professional development and the Standards Assessment Inventory Scores. The Standards Assessment Inventory is an assessment tool aligned with the Standards of Professional Learning that provides insight into the perceptions of professional…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Faculty Development, School District Spending
Rossman, Teri L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study utilized a quantitative research approach with a survey design to determine whether a sample of K-8 principals in the state of Illinois, that rated teachers in a set of classroom instructional videos, exhibited inter-rater reliability since they all received the Illinois state-approved training and certification for teacher evaluators.…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Kindergarten, Principals, Administrator Surveys
Robinson, Michael Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The need for evaluating teachers' performance is ongoing; only recently it has been done in a systematic way. The most common method employed is a teacher evaluation tool that has been validated in practice. Such a tool is the Danielson framework for teaching (FFT). The FFT is used to evaluate teachers in Illinois, among other states; in that…
Descriptors: Models, Academic Achievement, Teacher Evaluation, Phenomenology
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Conrad, David L.; Hackmann, Donald G. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
This study investigated principals' perceptions of Illinois teacher evaluation reforms, applying education policy implementation theory and micropolitics of personnel evaluation as conceptual frameworks. Interviews were conducted with 20 Illinois public school principals. Findings revealed micropolitics influenced the development and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Van Tuyle, Vicki – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2022
When COVID-19 changed schooling in Illinois from face-to-face teaching and learning to remote teaching and learning, the transformation was sudden and swift. While there may have been premonitions and feelings of urgency about the effects of the novel coronavirus, there was little time to plan for the change that would take place and little…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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Moylan, Laura A.; Johnson, Evelyn S.; Zheng, Yuzhu – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study describes the development of a special education teacher observation protocol detailing the elements of effective decoding instruction. The psychometric properties of the protocol were investigated through many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM). Video observations of classroom decoding instruction from 20 special education teachers across…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Special Education Teachers, Psychometrics, Video Technology
Aragon, Stephanie – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Teacher evaluations can be used by states and districts to support and develop an exceptional workforce. Accurate evaluations based on quality data can help differentiate teacher performance, inform feedback, improve professional development, provide opportunities for pay increases and advancement, and provide rationale for teacher dismissals. Yet…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Needs, Evaluation Problems, Educational Trends
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De Voto, Craig; Olson, Jennifer D.; Gottlieb, Jessica J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Since 2009, the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) has been rapidly implemented as a policy tool for strengthening teacher professionalization across the United States. However, its national assimilation has become a target for both praise and critique among teacher educators. In this article, we examine such diverse perspectives.…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs
Humphries, Kristin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With the federal government's expanding role in K-12 public education, this study examines how the government's role led to the passage of the Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA). PERA made changes to Article 24A of the School Code, specifically the section that deals with teacher performance evaluation. PERA created a public school…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Teacher Evaluation, Public School Teachers
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Dodson, Richard – Educational Research Quarterly, 2018
This research examines how public school principals in seven U.S. states perceive the proficiency exam they must take and pass in order to evaluate their teachers. The test is centered on the states' primary teaching evaluation system, which is based on Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching. An online survey was developed and 832 out of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Principals, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluators
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Lavigne, Alyson Leah; Chamberlain, Roger Wade – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2017
The aim of the current study is to assess school leaders' perceptions and practices in the context of a new policy that emphasizes teacher evaluation. The study draws from survey data of 606 K-12 school leaders in the USA in a state implementing a new teacher evaluation model under Race to the Top. Findings illustrate that school leaders spent…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Administrators, Faculty Development, Instructional Leadership
Jacobs, Sandi – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Just a few years ago, tenure appeared low on the reform list for state policy makers and district administrators, viewed as too hot an issue politically to challenge. But it was front and center in the 2014 landmark "Vergara v. California" lawsuit, which challenged teacher tenure and related policies. Yet whether to grant tenure or not…
Descriptors: Tenure, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Evaluation
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Hazi, Helen M. – Rural Educator, 2016
Limited research has been done to examine teacher evaluation in rural schools. This article presents an analysis of legislation and regulation of teacher evaluation in selected rural states, highlights their commonalities and differences, reports their litigation, and speculates on potential problems that can result in rural schools. It ends with…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Rural Schools, Federal Legislation, Court Litigation
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Lavigne, Alyson L.; Olson, Amy M. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
The current study explores how principals (n = 568) experience a new teacher evaluation model under Race to the Top. Findings suggest that principals felt the least confident in their ability to identify teacher behaviors associated with student achievement gains and placed the least value on student achievement data. Evaluation experience…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Accountability
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