I’ve been collecting articles and papers on the subject of test scores and teacher evaluations over the last few years. Here is the list:
- A Dark Day for New York
- A principal at a high performing school explains why she is “absolutely sick” about the public release of the TDRs”
- An L.A. teacher reviews her review
- Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 1
- Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 2
- Applying a Precise Label to a Rough Number
- Are half of New York’s teachers really ‘not effective?’
- Battling the “Bad Teacher” Bogeyman
- Bobby Jindal vs. Public Education
- Can Teachers be Evaluated by Their Students’ Test Scores? Should they Be? The Use of Value-Added Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in Policy and Practice
- Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher
- EPIC Report: Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers
- Failed tests
- Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn From Research
- High- Quality Teacher Evaluation or ‘Fetishization’ of Tests? New Report Offers Clear Guidance for Policymakers
- How Race to the Top is like ‘Queen for a Day’
- Hurdles Emerge in Rising Effort to Rate Teachers
- In Tennessee, Following the Rules for Evaluations Off a Cliff
- On teacher evaluation: the responsibility of the media to dig a little deeper
- Review of Learning About Teaching
- The New York Principal’s APPR Paper
- The Test Generation
- Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations
- Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching
- VAM gets Slammed: Teacher Evaluation Not A Game of Chance
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