Test Scores and Teacher Evaluation/ Pay: A Primer
Reporting on the revisions to teacher evaluations in DC public schools, Valerie Strauss makes a key observation:
"When Rhee set the percentage at 50 percent back in 2009, after spending millions of dollars to create the assessment system, she based it on absolutely nothing grounded in research. The 35 percent? Also based on no research."
I have recently argued that test-based teacher evaluations and pay are without credibility (HERE and HERE).
Teachers, parents, and the public who are genuinely concerned about public school quality must enter directly the teacher evaluation/pay debate, but do so informed with the following