所有老師得A-- RETHINKING TEACHER EVALUATIONS

所有老師得A-- RETHINKING TEACHER EVALUATIONS

MOVING BEYOND TEST SCORES
Karen Hawley Miles and Karen Baroody write in Education Week: We know that the quality of teaching a student receives is the single most important predictor of student performance, yet measuring and managing that quality has proved an elusive goal. Policymakers and decisionmakers around the country are embracing the challenge of improving teaching effectiveness like never before. But much of the current discussion focuses too narrowly on using evaluation tools that rely heavily on student test scores to fire underperforming teachers and to pay bonuses to high-scoring teachers.