Authentic achievement relies on three restructuring criteria. Students construct meaning and produce knowledge, use disciplined inquiry to construct meaning, and aim their work toward producing discourse, products, and performances possessing value beyond school success. Five standards for rating instruction involve degrees of higher order…

Proposes guidelines for principals attempting to evaluate teachers' grading policies. Principals should understand teachers' perspectives, ask for copies of their grading policies, be wary of traits (like "effort") not measuring achievement, consider grading information quality, think about homework's role, expect teachers to use numbers and…

Observing administrators should watch and listen to both teachers and students, noting use of the target language by both groups, prevalence of student-centered activities, instructional strategies that encourage language learning and accommodate varied learning styles, well-integrated lesson plans, and presence of a comfortable classroom climate.…

Contributes to a special issue on how the reconsideration of what scholarship is affects the way in which scholarship is assessed. Discusses what the scholarship of teaching is, what qualities exist in this form of scholarship, what its requirements are, how one accomplishes it, and how the scholarship of teaching can be assessed. (SR)

This study determined the criteria used by administrators to assess effective teaching by early childhood public school teachers and explored the relationship between such evaluative criteria and research- and theory-based indicators of developmentally appropriate practices. Instruments used for evaluation were collected from 17 school districts…

A comparison of teacher appraisal systems in Georgia and Texas demonstrates many similarities between the two programs. The Georgia Teacher Evaluation Program identifies effective teaching practices, areas where development can improve instructional effectiveness, and teachers who do not meet minimum standards. The Texas Teacher Appraisal System…

Materials used in South Oklahoma City Junior College's faculty evaluation process are presented in these three booklets. First, the principles and guidelines applying to all areas of the faculty evaluation process are presented, including: (1) evaluation is dependent upon shared responsibility and rigorous professional judgments; (2) only agreed…

A growing emphasis on teacher accountability, coupled with declining enrollments and reduced revenues, has increased the importance of teacher evaluations as a basis for staffing decisions, even though there is no clear definition of teacher effectiveness. Accordingly, legal standards are provided for the procedural and substantive issues of due…

College faculty (n=171) from 16 Arkansas colleges were asked to make validity and cut score judgments about the test items for the 1982 Arkansas National Teacher Examination (NTE) study of 23 area examinations. Each of the 23 data collection panels began with a training session which included specific directions for the estimates of the judges.…

Recently, an emphasis has been placed on the new paradigm of teacher reflection as an expression of what should be developed in teacher education programs. A discussion is presented on this term as it relates to the "teacher as a reflective decision-maker" model for clinical instruction and teacher evaluation occuring within such…

This paper describes the purposes of educational evaluation with particular emphasis on school improvement. The evaluation process used was based upon the analytical tools developed and tested by the Educational Productivity Council (EPC) of the University of Texas. An early form of this model and reporting system was introduced to a group of 68…

This document reviews effective teaching behaviors that have been identified through research. The four categories in which these behaviors are examined are instructional strategies, classroom management, the presentation of subject matter, and the establishment of an appropriate learning environment. These four categories also make up four of the…

This bulletin summarizes: (1) the Indiana law (HB 1360) that requires public schools to implement teacher performance evaluations as a condition of accreditation, (2) a recent study of teacher evaluation plans and techniques commissioned for the Indiana Department of Education by the Consortium on Educational Policy Studies at Indiana University,…

Features of an updated teacher evaluation and salary program used by the Ladue, Missouri, school district are described in this report. Following a brief overview of the program's history and provisions, detailed criteria for teacher evaluation are described. Criteria measure: (1) teacher/student interactions; (2) relationships with colleagues;…

The articles in this volume, focusing on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for competent evaluation of teaching, were originally presented at the National Symposia for Professionals in Evaluation and Research (NSPER:82) conferences in Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New Orleans, Louisiana. After an introduction by…