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

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  • 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.
Beverly Prange

The Flipped Classroom : Education Next - 0 views

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shared by Beverly Prange on 15 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Counterintuitively, Bergmann says the most important benefits of the video lessons are profoundly human: “I now have time to work individually with students. I talk to every student in every classroom every day.”
  • Bergmann credits the new arrangement with fostering better relationships, greater student engagement, and higher levels of motivation.
  • crafting a great four- to six-minute video lesson poses a tremendous instructional challenge: how to explain a concept in a clear, concise, bite-sized chunk. Creating her own videos forces her to pay attention to the details and nuances of instruction—the pace, the examples used, the visual representation, and the development of aligned assessment practices
  • Beverly Prange on 15 Nov 11
     
    Now I understand what a flipped classroom is!
Beverly Prange

How to Think Creatively - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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shared by Beverly Prange on 18 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Beverly Prange on 18 Nov 11
     
    Great advice for doctoral students!
Beverly Prange

Douglas B. Reeves, Ph.D. | The Leadership and Learning Center - 1 views

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shared by Beverly Prange on 03 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Beverly Prange on 03 Nov 11
     
    I think this is the professor Dr. Lindsey said was the go-to researcher on schools who succeed with historically under-served students
Beverly Prange

Whose children have been left behind? Framing the 2012 ed debate - The Answer Sheet - T... - 1 views

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shared by Beverly Prange on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Their ideas boil down to this strategy: NCLB failed because we didn’t use enough carrots and sticks. They say that schools should operate like businesses, because the free market is more efficient than government. So these reformers — I call them corporate reformers — advocate market-based reforms.
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  • l testing began in 2002, and no gains for Hispanic students since 2005. According to the latest research, the black-white achievement gap is larger now in Chicago than when the reforms began.
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  • schools. All schools are given letter grades based on test scores. New York City spent $56 million on merit pay, then abandoned the program when it showed zero results.
  • ity kids consistently get lower test scores than white and privileged kids. So why would we make testing the most important measure of education? Why would we take the technology that is most discouraging to children in the bottom half and then insist that it matters more than anything else? Why would we give more credibility to standardized tests than to teachers’ and parents’ judgments about children’s potential?
  • o more money.” There is money to do what we want to do. There is money to fight wars in the Middle East. There is enough money to give big corporate cuts. There is enough money for 1% of this nation 7 to live lives of splendor. Why is there not eno
  • money to provide the basic public services that every child needs?
Beverly Prange

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

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shared by Beverly Prange on 05 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
Joel Garcia

C2K computers 2 SD Kids - 1 views

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shared by Joel Garcia on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
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