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Joel Garcia

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    cultural proficiency annotated bibliography
jeffery heil

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

  • 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.
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    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.
Abigail Larrison

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    Sounds a lot like Culturally Proficient LS.
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