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Sartain, Lauren; Zou, Andrew; Gutiérrez, Vanessa; Shyjka, Andria; Hinton, Ebony; Brown, Eric R.; Easton, John Q. – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2020
Responding to an Illinois law that took effect in 2010, the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA), Chicago Public Schools (CPS) created and implemented the REACH (Recognizing Educators Advancing Chicago's Students) educator evaluation and support system. REACH was piloted in 2012-13. It is still being implemented as of the 2019-20 school year…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Attitudes
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Santelices, Maria Veronica; Valencia, Edgar; Gonzalez, Jorge; Taut, Sandy – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2017
This research examines empirically the relationship between two measures of teacher quality: one based on professional standards and a second one using teacher value-added estimates. It also studies the extent to which teacher observable characteristics, such as teacher training variables, are associated to better performance on either of these…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Context Effect, Foreign Countries, Value Added Models
Webert, Candice D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study addressed the impact of VAM, concerns with VAM data, uses and interventions educational leaders provided teachers, and components perceived as necessary for VAM effectiveness as an evaluation tool. The demographics used for this study were position, school size, and experience. Due to the documented need for educational accountability…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Educational Administration, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Practices
Kane, Thomas J., Ed.; Kerr, Kerri A., Ed.; Pianta, Robert C., Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2014
What is effective teaching? It is not enough to say "I know it when I see it"--not when we are expecting so much more from students and teachers than in the past. To help teachers achieve greater success with their students we need new and better ways to identify and develop effective teaching. The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET)…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Definitions, Best Practices