Don’t give too much weight to student test scores for teacher evaluation [Report]
August 29, 2010
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The Economic Policy Institute’s new report, Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers, cautions against heavy reliance on the use of test scores in teacher evaluation.
Authors of the report include four former presidents of the American Educational Research Association; two former presidents of the National Council on Measurement in Education; the current and two former chairs of the Board of Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences; the president-elect of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management; the former director of the Educational Testing Service’s Policy Information Center and a former associate director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress; a former assistant U.S. Secretary of Education; a former and current member of the National Assessment Governing Board; and the current vice-president, a former president, and three other members of the National Academy of Education.
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Well … when you put it that way …
But, with that lineup, I really question whether this report is “research” or a political move in itself. Notice that the description of the authors came before the executive summary.
Either way, though, it doesn’t really matter. This political football is not going away anytime soon.