This Week In Education: Research: Using E-Mails To Predict Teacher Effectiveness

This Week In Education: Research: Using E-Mails To Predict Teacher Effectiveness:

Research: Using E-Mails To Predict Teacher Effectiveness

I predict you won't like this next item: I've been joking about predictive value-added ratings for a while now but it turns out I'm already behind the times. This story from the Harvard Education Letter from last spring describes efforts to do just that by at least one charter network in Texas. What's being used in the place of standardized testing data are things like phone interviews and email responses. It sounds like an online version of the interviews and simulations that many