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Education Week: Measuring Teaching Effectiveness - 0 views
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ects to identify valid indicators of excellent teaching. These projects are examining the technical quality of several existing assessment instruments, and piloting early versions of new tools, from classroom evaluation tools, to pedagogical content-knowledge tests, to surveys of student perceptions. The data gathered on these tools will be compared with evidence of student outcomes, and combinations of measures will be simulated to determine which “multiple measures” might work best.
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ruments themselves or the means of collecting evidence. The quality must pervade how the measures are implemented, not just what measures are implemented.
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ns that classroom observation will require a substantial effort to provide adequate training for those who will evaluate, rigorous requirements to show that evaluators are applying scoring criteria consistently, and monitoring or quality-checking of scorers to make sure those judgments stay on track over time and in different classrooms.
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Education Week: What Is 'Excellence for All'? - 0 views
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ids are different, for a variety of reasons, and ignoring those differences means failing to meet their real needs.
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As one new study shows, responsibly recognizing those differences can drive achievement for all kids involved. Looking particularly at Massachusetts middle schools, most of which have abandoned the practice of tracking, the Brookings Institution’s Tom Loveless found something surprising. Schools that tracked students had significantly more math pupils performing at the “advanced” and “proficient” levels, and fewer students at the “needs improvement” and “failing” levels. And the opposite was true of schools that had “un-tracked.” In short, students did better when they were in classes tailored to their needs.
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Be in health care, education, or cleantech. These three industries are screaming for disruptive innovation, and the innovators that deliver the disruptive goods are well positioned to create massive success stories.
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Deron Durflinger
I am the Superintendent/Secondary Principal at Van Meter Schools in Van Meter, IA. I am interested in helping lead the change in public education needed to meet the needs of learners in the 21st century. I have four children ages 15, 14, 11 and 9. I have a personal and a professional interest i...