As the rubber hits the road in the implementation of states’ revamped teacher-evaluation systems, new research illuminates a troubling source of bias. School principals—when conducting ...

Teacher observations cost the American education system nearly $1.5 billion a year, but the feedback teachers are receiving from them isn’t improving student achievement, argues Mark Dynarski ...

Louisiana adopted the new system to comply with Act 54, a law passed in 2010 aimed at improving teacher quality in the state with more intensive, annual teacher evaluations. Half of a teacher’s rating ...

Teachers who participated in a year-long study comparing video-recorded and in-person classroom observations found the video observation process fairer and more useful overall than in-person ...

Observation protocol scores are commonly used as status measures to support inferences about teacher practices. When multiple observations are collected for the same teacher over the course of a year, ...

Even with a more comprehensive ways of evaluating K-12 teachers, ... of credentials and years of experience to focus on student achievement and classroom observation. The report’s ...

The Danielson observation system has been the subject of independent research studies that suggest it can accurately gauge the skill level of a teacher. Louisiana's shorter version has not been ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City will use a new teacher evaluation system for this school year only, to reflect the challenges schools face during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ...