Areas of concern include instructional practices, defining effectiveness, and identifying valid and reliable measures of effectiveness. All of the Central states are considering changes to their systems for evaluating teacher need support, studying impacts of newly adopted systems of evaluation, and making decisions about upcoming systems.

Resources

• “Classroom-based Assessment: Reliability and Validity” Study Guide
• Webinar #5 slides
• Webinar #4 slides
• Webinar #3 slides
• Webinar #2 slides
• Webinar #1 slides
• Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making
• Unobtrusive Assessment
• The teacher preparation, teacher practices, student outcomes relationship in special education: Missing links and next steps
• The Montana Story: Providing support to frontier communities through state oversight, embedded coaching, and community engagement
• The linking study—First year results: A report of the first year effects of an experimental study of the impact of feedback to teachers on teaching and learning.
• The Gateway to the Profession: Assessing Teacher Preparation Programs Based on Student Achievement
• Teacher quality and student achievement: Making the most of recent research.
• Teacher preparation and student achievement, working paper 20
• Teacher pay for performance: Experimental evidence from the project on incentives in teaching.
• Supporting State Efforts to Design and Implement Teacher Evaluation Systems
• Study Guide #7 Common Assessment
• Study Guide #6 Decision Making and Assessment Study Guide
• Study Guide #5 Student-Involvement in Assessment
• Study Guide #4 Unobtrusive Assessment
• Study Guide #3 “Classroom-based Assessment: Reliability and Validity”
• Study Guide #2 Common Core Standards and Learning Progressions
• Study Guide #1 Formative Assessment Activity
• Student-Involvement in Assessment Study Guide
• Student teaching in the United States
• Review of State Policies on Teacher Induction
• Paying teachers for results: A summary of research to inform the design of pay-for-performance programs for high-poverty schools
• National Board certification and teacher effectiveness: Evidence from a random assignment experiment
• Middle school mathematics professional development impact study: Findings after the second year of implementation
• Measuring Teachers’ Contributions to Student Learning Growth for Nontested Grades and Subjects
• Measuring teacher effectiveness: A look “under the hood” of teacher evaluation in 10 sites
• Mathematics and Science Partnerships Program Highlights, Analytic and Technical Support for Mathematics and Science Partnerships
• Linking Teacher Evaluation to Professional Development: Focusing on Improving Teaching and Learning.
• Learning progressions: Supporting instruction and formative assessment.
• Job-Embedded Professional Development: What It Is, Who Is Responsible, and How to Get It Done Well
• Improving mathematical problem solving in grades 4 through 8: A practice guide
• Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Final Results from a Randomized Controlled Study
• Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Final Results from a Randomized Controlled Study
• Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide
• How Boomers Can Contribute to Student Success: Emerging Encore Career Opportunities in K-12 Education
• Generating teaching effectiveness: The role of Job-embedded professional learning in teacher evaluation: A Research & Policy Brief
• Full-Release and Site-Based Mentoring of New Elementary Grade Teachers: An Analysis of Changes in Student Achievement
• First Year Results: A report of the first year effects of an experimental study of the impact of feedback to teachers on teaching and learning
• Facilitator Guide Webinar #4
• Facilitator Guide Webinar #2
• Facilitator Guide Webinar #1
• Evaluating the effectiveness of teacher preparation programs for support and accountability
• Evaluating School Principals
• DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Predictive Effectiveness for 3rd-grade Reading Performance in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
• Developing and Selecting Assessments of Student Growth for Use in Teacher Evaluation Systems
• Considerations for analyzing educators’ contributions to student learning in non-tested subjects and grades with a focus on student learning objectives.
• Communication framework for measuring teacher quality and effectiveness: Bringing coherence to the conversation
• Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: The impact on elementary school mathematics in the Central Region.
• CCSSR: A New Model for the Role of Research in Supporting Urban School Reform
• Approaches to dropout prevention: Heeding early warning signs with appropriate interventions.
• An Examination of Performance Based Teacher Evaluation Systems in Five States
• An evaluation of teachers trained through different routes to certification, Final report
• Alternative Measures of Teacher Performance
• AEI Education Outlook No. 9. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
• Achieving with data: How high-performing school systems use data to improve instruction for elementary students
• A survey of approaches used to evaluate educators in non-tested grades and subjects
• A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early reading proficiency
• What teacher preparation programs teach about K-12 assessment: A review.