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Feldman, Jo – Educational Leadership, 2018
Have teachers become too dependent on points? This article explores educators' dependency on their points systems, and the ways that points can distract teachers from really analyzing students' capabilities and achievements. Feldman argues that using a more subjective grading system can help illuminate crucial information about students and what…
Descriptors: Grading, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria, Achievement Rating
Jung, Lee Ann – Educational Leadership, 2018
What is Goal Attainment Scaling? In this article, Lee Ann Jung defines it as a way to measure a student's progress toward an individualized goal. Instead of measuring a skill at a set time (for instance, on a test or other assignment), Goal Attainment Scaling tracks the steps a student takes over the course of a year in a targeted skill. Together,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Progress Monitoring
Aaron M. Pallas – Educational Leadership, 2016
Teacher evaluation systems can have high stakes for individual teachers, and it's important to ask how new evaluation models--including value-added measures--serve teachers as they strive to improve their practice. The authors interviewed teachers at a high-performing New York City school about their reactions to their value-added scores and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating
Goodwin, Bryan; Hein, Heather – Educational Leadership, 2016
In 2013, a team of experts funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wrapped up a three year, $45 million project to identify Measures of Effective Teaching (MET)--an effort to determine whether it's possible to put numbers on something as complex as teaching. After reviewing 20,000 classroom videos, crunching data from thousands of student…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains
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Marzano, Robert J. – Educational Leadership, 2012
States, districts, and schools all across the United States are busy developing or implementing teacher evaluation systems. One can trace this flurry of activity to a variety of reports and initiatives that highlight two failings of past efforts: (1) Teacher evaluation systems have not accurately measured teacher quality because they've failed to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Strategies, Teacher Evaluation, Measurement Objectives
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Lucio, William H. – Educational Leadership, 1973
Article discusses the systematic efforts in the direction of analyzing teacher performance as a correlate of predicted changes in learners. (GB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Faculty Evaluation, Student Evaluation
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Hedges, William D.; Hardin, Veralee B. – Educational Leadership, 1972
Study was initiated to provide information to classroom teachers, special teachers, and to curriculum personnel concerning the effects, if any, on general academic achievement of the use of the program, Physiology of Readiness (Getman and Kane, 1964), which is intended to develop body and sensory skills. (Authors)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Data Analysis, Grade 1, Learning Readiness
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Steehre, Bob J. – Educational Leadership, 1972
A summarization of research studies which statistically evaluated various nongraded programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation