In recent years, substantial investments have been made in reengineering systems of
teacher evaluation. The new generation models of teacher evaluation typically adopt a …

This research synthesis examines how teacher effectiveness is currently measured. By
evaluating the research on teacher effectiveness and the different instruments used to …

Federal law emphasizes the need for states and districts to ensure that all students—
particularly at-risk students, minority students, and students in high-poverty areas—have …

Policymakers are revolutionizing teacher evaluation by attaching greater stakes to student
test scores and observation-based teacher effectiveness measures, but relatively little is …

Value-added models have become popular in research and pay-for-performance plans.
While scholars have focused attention on some aspects of their validity (eg, scoring …

Salary schedules for teachers are a nearly universal feature of American K-12 pub-lic school
districts. Data from national surveys show that close to 100 percent of tra-ditional public …

Recent studies conclude that teachers are important for student learning but it remains
uncertain what actually determines effective teaching. This study directly peers into the black …

Over the last decade, teacher evaluation has moved onto center stage in efforts to
strengthen schooling. In this article, we address the question of whether focusing on this …

Using standards-based evaluation ratings for nearly 400 teachers, and achievement results
for over 7,000 students from grades 4–6, this study investigated the distribution and …

Selecting more productive employees among a pool of job applicants can be a cost-effective
means of improving organizational performance and may be particularly important in the …