In recent years, Arkansas has joined the growing number of states implementing merit-pay systems for teachers--policies that ...

More than 3,220 employees, including at least 840 teachers, left Houston ISD from August 2024 through May, exacerbating the ...

"Research shows that value-added models based on teacher evaluations and higher test scores are biased, unreliable, invalid, unfair and not transparent," she said.

When a high-value-added teacher (in the top 5 percent) enters a school, end-of-school-year test scores in the grade he or she teaches rise immediately.

The value-added part of the evaluation has generated the most worry, even though only about 3,600 of the district's 13,000 teachers have value-added scores so far.

The Courant’s teacher evaluation editorial falls into a common trap: ignoring basic statistics [April 23, Opinion, “Back To Squishy Teacher Evals”]. Claiming that student performa… ...

Leon County Schools’ revamped teacher evaluation model may finally tip the scales in favor of teachers.

In March, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to give principals more say in teacher evaluations and value-added results, starting in the 2015-16 school year.

Value-added models, like WAR, also arguably present a more comprehensive view of a teacher’s year-long accomplishment than conventional teacher-evaluation systems.

With such ringing endorsements, it is easy to understand why some teachers would welcome new evaluations. But what teachers want more than a new instrument are frequent observations by multiple ...

The value-added model of measuring teacher performance can have weak or nonexistent relationships with the content and quality of teachers' instruction, a new report finds.

The researchers compared the value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness from the state test and a norm-referenced test in the academic years 2005-06 through 2010-11.