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Acing the Test: An Examination of Teachers' Perceptions of and Responses to the Threat of State Takeover
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Welsh, Richard; Graham, Jerome; Williams, Sheneka – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, states have increased latitude over school improvement and accountability policies. At the same time, school takeover via state-run turnaround districts has emerged as a prominent education reform. Although policies takeover influence how teachers are prepared, supported, and evaluated, little is…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Principal Holistic Judgments and High-Stakes Evaluations of Teachers
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Briggs, Derek C.; Dadey, Nathan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2017
Results from a sample of 1,013 Georgia principals who rated 12,617 teachers are used to compare holistic and analytic principal judgments with indicators of student growth central to the state's teacher evaluation system. Holistic principal judgments were compared to mean student growth percentiles (MGPs) and analytic judgments from a formal…
Descriptors: Correlation, Protocol Analysis, Classroom Observation Techniques, Academic Achievement