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jeffery heil

Issue Brief 10 | Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Credentials Unrelated to Student Achi... - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 19 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • A wide body of research shows that teachers are the most important school-based factor related to student achievement.
  • Yet according to a new analysis of student performance in Florida that two colleagues and I conducted, little to no relationship exists between these credentials and the gains that a teacher’s students make on standardized math and reading exams.
  • external teacher credentials tell us next to nothing about how well a teacher will perform in the classroom
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  • Even districts that used broader evaluation distinctions ranked 94 percent of teachers in one of the top two tiers of effectiveness and deemed just 1 percent “unsatisfactory.”[1]
  • over 99 percent of teachers received the thumbs-up rating.
  • As with most previous research, we found no relationship between a teacher’s earning a master’s degree, certification, or years of experience and the teacher’s classroom performance as measured by student test scores
  • Empirical research on the effect of classroom experience yields more complex results than research on teacher credentials; but ultimately, it is just as discouraging.
  • but the benefit of that experience appears to plateau after the third to fifth year
  • Upward of 97 percent of what makes one teacher more effective than another is unrelated to factors such as the number of years the teacher has been teaching and the credentials that the teacher has earned.
  • Modern research on teacher quality makes clear that the factors used to determine a teacher’s compensation tell us little to nothing about how well the teacher will perform in the classroom.
  • The structure of the current system is simply indefensible, given modern research findings.
  • An early study by Stanford University economist Eric Hanushek estimated that the difference between being assigned to one of the system’s best teachers and one of its worst is about an additional grade level’s worth of proficiency at the end of the school year.
  • teacher quality varies dramatically; and almost nothing we know about a teacher before he or she enters the classroom accurately predicts how successful that teacher will be.
  • jeffery heil on 19 Dec 11
     
    I have an issue with the fact that, according to these researchers, standardized test scores seemed to be the only true measure of student success and teacher effectiveness. While I agree that there is no necessary connection between student success and certification or degree by the teacher, we need to look at a better outcome measure than standardized tests.
jeffery heil

Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by jeffery heil on 21 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • There’s no shortage of grown-up distress over the dangers young people face online.
  • Endless back-and-forthing over how to respond effectively — shutting Web sites, regulating online access and otherwise tempering the world of social media for children — dominates the P.T.A. and the halls of policy makers.
  • “Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed,”
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  • “Letting your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.”
  • Children naturally congregate on social media sites for the relatively unsupervised conversations, flirtations, immature humor and social exchanges that are the normal stuff of teenage hanging-out, she said.
  • What scares me is that we don’t want to look at the things that make us uncomfortable. So rather than see what teenagers are showing us online about bullying and suicide and the problems they’re dealing with and using that information to help them, we’re making ourselves blind to it.”
  • She asks, for example, how teenagers can be encouraged to become politically active when so much of that activity takes place online.
  • she wonders whether gay children grappling with their sexuality might benefit enormously from chatting online with adults who have been through similar situations.
Beverly Prange

More on "The New Stupid" - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week - 0 views

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  • schools have a "long tail" of support staff charged with ensuring that educators have the tools they need to be effective. Just as it makes more sense to judge the quality of army chefs on the quality of their kitchens and cuisines rather than on the outcome of combat operations, so it is more sensible to focus on how well district employees perform their prescribed tasks than on less direct measures of job performance. The tendency to casually focus on student achievement, especially given the testing system's heavy emphasis on reading and math, allows a large number of employees to either be excused from results-driven accountability or be held accountable for activities over which they have no control. This undermines a performance mindset and promises to eventually erode confidence in management.
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