Can Teachers Be Evaluated by Their Students' Test Scores? Should They Be?

By S. Corcoran. 2010

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• The Legal Consequences of Mandating High Stakes Decisions Based on Low Quality Information: Teacher Evaluation in the Race-to-the-Top Era (2013, unknown): “A handful of studies have also found that teacher ratings vary significantly, even for the same subject area, if different assessments of that subject are used (Corcoran, Jennings, & Beveridge, 2010; Gates Foundation, 2010). If a teacher is broadly responsible for effectively teaching in their subje”
• Teacher stress, teaching-efficacy, and job satisfaction in response to test-based educational accountability policies (2016, background): “However, teaching effectiveness may not be accurately reflected in student test performance (Baker et al., 2010) given susceptibility to outside variables such as student attendance and psychosocial variables (Corcoran, 2010).”
• Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effectiveness: An Exploration of Stability across Models and Contexts (2010, background): “…vary systematically across teachers and schools, creating extreme methodological challenges to making definitive causal inferences about teachers’ effectiveness based on their student scores (Corcoran, 2010; Kupermintz, 2003; Linn, 2008; Raudenbush & Willms, 1995; Rubin, Stuart, & Zanutto, 2004).”
• More than just test scores (2012, background): “serious methodological issues surrounding the calculation of the value added for each teacher (Corcoran 2010; Harris 2009), an even more fundamental question arises.”
• Can Value Added Add Value to Teacher Evaluation? (2015, unknown): “As Sean Corcoran (2010) documented with New York City data, after taking statistical 134 EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER uncertainty into account, the “true” effectiveness of a teacher ranked in the 43rd percentile on New York City’s Teacher Data Report might have a range of possible scores from the 15th to ”