Saturday, November 17, 2012

AIR Pollution in NY State? Comments on the NY State Teacher/Principal Rating Models/Report « School Finance 101

AIR Pollution in NY State? Comments on the NY State Teacher/Principal Rating Models/Report « School Finance 101:


AIR Pollution in NY State? Comments on the NY State Teacher/Principal Rating Models/Report

I was immediately intrigued the other day when a friend passed along a link to the recent technical report on the New York State growth model, the results of which are expected/required to be integrated into district level teacher and principal evaluation systems under that state’s new teacher evaluation regulations.  I did as I often do and went straight for the pictures – in this case- the scatterplots of the relationships between various “other” measures and the teacher and principal “effect” measures.  There was plenty of interesting stuff there, some of which I’ll discuss below.
But then I went to the written language of the report – specifically the report’s (albeit in DRAFT form)  conclusions. The conclusions were only two short paragraphs long, despite much to ponder being provided in the