Purpose: New teacher evaluation systems have expanded the role of principals as
instructional leaders, but little is known about principals' ability to promote teacher …

In the wake of national interest in teacher evaluation, this book examines what we have
learned about how and whether teacher evaluation holds teachers accountable and …

Limited research has been done to examine teacher evaluation in rural schools. This article
presents an analysis of legislation and regulation of teacher evaluation in selected rural …

In light of state and district policies emphasizing more rigorous systems of teacher
evaluation—with many based in part on student growth scores—this chapter provides an …

Policies that require the use of information about student achievement to evaluate teacher
performance are becoming increasingly common across the United States, but there is some …

Arts educators recently have found themselves in unfamiliar and sometimes-frustrating
situations regarding their performance evaluations. The push for value-added models …

Teacher education evaluation practice has changed dramatically over the last decade to
incorporate more rigorous methods.• Research-based evaluation methods are being …

The suite of papers in this special Teachers College Record issue on data-driven decision
making in education reflects a burgeoning subdiscipline of scholarship on the topic that has …

As student learning objectives become an increasingly prominent approach to setting goals
and growth measures in schools, teachers' competence in formative assessment is …

Abstract The Student Growth Objectives are assessments created locally or by commercial
educational organizations. The students' scores from the Student Growth Objectives are …