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Ward, Phillip; Mitchell, Murray F.; Lawson, Hal A.; van der Mars, Hans – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
The physical education teacher education (PETE) faculty charged with oversight and delivery of initial teacher licensure programs confront several challenges. Some necessitate responses to revised and new standards, while others can be reframed as timely opportunities for improvement and innovation, whether in response to or in anticipation of…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Barriers, Skill Development
Reform Support Network, 2015
This publication summarizes the key discussion from experts in the field of measuring student growth during a convening held February 2015. Experts heard about two emerging approaches to measuring growth: Portfolios of student work samples and unit value-added models that provide teachers with timely and actionable feedback that they can use to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Portfolio Assessment, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kelly H. Summers; Todd D. Reeves; David A. Walker; J. Schwartz – School Leadership Review, 2015
Training school leaders in the key areas of policy and state laws, basic statistical literacy, assessment types and purposes, and value-added models is particularly important because ideas shaping teacher performance evaluation are being considered at the national, state, and local levels. The authors argue that providing school leaders with this…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Instructional Leadership, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
Goldhaber, Dan; Chaplin, Duncan – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
In a provocative and influential paper, Jesse Rothstein (2010) finds that standard value-added models (VAMs) suggest implausible future teacher effects on past student achievement, a finding that obviously cannot be viewed as causal. This is the basis of a falsification test (the Rothstein falsification test) that appears to indicate bias in VAM…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Correlation
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Semmelroth, Carrie L.; Johnson, Evelyn s.; Allred, Keith W. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2013
There is currently little consensus on how special education teachers should be evaluated in a way that is effective, fair and responsive to their unique teaching responsibilities. In this paper, we explain several of the current approaches to teacher evaluation under consideration, and then provide an overview of the challenges associated with…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Models, Alternative Assessment