Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Words for thought

Pondering an article...
Education Week - Teacher Quality...

I have had years of experience in the making of standardized tests, and now work for a project that is attempting to gauge teacher effectiveness. Though we are employing multiple measures, the student achievement measure, in reality, will trump all others.

I wonder if I too have fallen into the mindset that the test is the "best" method for us to really know what represents a good teacher or not.

Does testing students really tell us what we need and want to know about teachers?
In my opinion, it's only a teeny part of the picture.

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