Louisiana Educator: LDOE Report on Educator Evaluations

Louisiana Educator: LDOE Report on Educator Evaluations:

LDOE Report on Educator Evaluations

The Louisiana Department of Education issued a press release yesterday basically claiming that the new Act 54 evaluation system has greatly improved the teacher evaluation system in Louisiana. You can view the press release here. The full report ishere.

The report claims that the new system is much better than the old system which gave too many teachers a satisfactory evaluation. The new system has spread teacher evaluation results over a wide range using 4 levels of ratings from "ineffective" to "highly effective". The report claims that now teachers will get much more guidance from their evaluators about how to improve their teaching.

The DOE report on the 2012-13 teacher and administrator evaluation results also compares the evaluation results of each local school system to data that shows the progress school systems have made in reducing the number of non-proficient students as measured by state tests. The Department claims that such data shows that the new evaluation system generally aligns with actual results in the classrooms of the state. That is, teachers in parishes where student performance has not improved will more likely get low evaluations and teachers where student performance has improved most get the higher ratings on the evaluation. However when studying the tables we find all sorts of strange results that are difficult to explain. This will be covered