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What a farce. These numbers are MEANINGLESS!! Look at the disparity from school district to school district between Highly effective and effective. The principals doing the evaluations vary in judgement when doing evaluations. These ratings are all opinion and contain no facts to how effective a teacher is. What a waste of time and tax dollars!!!
It certainly looks like a bit of a joke and a big waste of taxpayer money. From what I can gather on what data is used, 40% are based off of test scores, and 60% are from evaluations from principals, superintendents from within that district. So if you have a district giving out blanket "highly effective" scores to their teachers, that has a 60% weighting and will skew any districts' outcome. Plus all data for each teacher is confidential so we don't know who the good and poor teachers are.
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What a farce. These numbers are MEANINGLESS!! Look at the disparity from school district to school district between Highly effective and effective. The principals doing the evaluations vary in judgement when doing evaluations. These ratings are all opinion and contain no facts to how effective a teacher is. What a waste of time and tax dollars!!!
And why should teachers be exempt from evaluation? Show me a job where the quality of your evaluation is not based on the opinion & literary skills of the reviewer? Also realize that some districts may have more older/younger teachers that skew the reviews.
It certainly looks like a bit of a joke and a big waste of taxpayer money. From what I can gather on what data is used, 40% are based off of test scores, and 60% are from evaluations from principals, superintendents from within that district. So if you have a district giving out blanket "highly effective" scores to their teachers, that has a 60% weighting and will skew any districts' outcome. Plus all data for each teacher is confidential so we don't know who the good and poor teachers are.
Doesn't that mean a good district with a poor rating say the teachers are really bad?
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