Evaluation and Compensation
Teacher evaluation and compensation represents the process whereby teachers are assessed or evaluated as well as related issues pertaining to compensation, advancement, and leadership opportunities. In the last several years, many components of this process have been challenged and reform efforts have been initiated as a result of some of the following questions:
- What assessment tools are available for the observation, assessment, and evaluation of teachers?
- How should teachers be held accountable for their practice, and in what ways can teachers advance in their careers?
- What considerations should be taken into account when developing alternative pay systems for teachers?
- What is the impact of pay-for-performance programs?
- What are the advantages and drawbacks of the components that comprise these programs?
Webcasts
Paying for Teachers' Performance—Strategies and Conditions for Success (May 10, 2007)
This webcast examined the policy, research, and practice of performance-based compensation, specifically focusing on valid, reliable, and ethical ways to evaluate teachers' instructional performance. Experts discussed the promise and pitfalls of value-added and other statistical measures of student achievement growth as well as teaching portfolios and professional administrator evaluations.
Online Resources
TQ Source on Accountability and Advancement
Teacher accountability and advancement represents the process whereby teachers are assessed or evaluated as well as resulting advancement and leadership opportunities. In the last several years, many components of this process have been challenged and questions have been raised, and reform efforts have been initiated as a result.
Publications
Improving Instruction Through Effective Teacher Evaluation: Options for States and Districts (
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This brief discusses the measures used in teacher evaluation and focuses on their strengths, limitations, and current use. It underscores aspects of evaluation policies currently aligned with best practices and illuminates areas in which policymakers can improve evaluation rules, regulations, and implementation—thereby improving teacher instruction and student performance.
Teacher-Pay Incentives: Do They Work?
Sabrina Laine, Ph.D., director of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, fielded questions about teacher-pay incentives during a live online chat hosted in October 2006 by Education Week. The chat—titled Teacher-Pay Incentives: Do They Work?—featured 45 questions from teachers, school administrators, government representatives, parents, and college students majoring in education.
TQ Tips and Tools
Performance-Based Pay ( Adobe Reader PDF 396 KB)
This TQ Tips and Tools key issue focuses on strategies and resources about performance-based pay systems and how they can be important for teacher quality in at-risk schools.
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