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chool districts across the country are incorporating measures of student achievement growth in teacher evaluations—a task that is especially challenging for teachers of grades and subjects that lack standardized state assessments.
Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic (REL) studied eight districts that were early adopters of alternative student growth measures and had been using them for at least one year for teacher evaluation or performance-related compensation systems. Half the study districts applied statistical value-added models to end-of-course and commercial assessments, and half used student learning objectives selected by teachers and approved by the principal. The report describes how the alternative student growth measures were used in the eight districts, their perceived costs and benefits, and common implementation challenges and solutions.
Read the report at: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?projectID=445
Interested in alternative student growth measures? You may also like these other recent REL publications:
- REL Mid-Atlantic: Alternative student growth measures for teacher evaluation: Profiles of early adopting districts
- REL Mid-Atlantic: Using alternative student growth measures for evaluating teacher performance: What the literature says
- REL Midwest: Comparing estimates of teacher value-added based on criterion- and norm-referenced tests
- REL Northeast and Islands: How states use student learning objectives in teacher evaluation systems: A review of state websites
