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ERIC ED539744: The State of Teacher Evaluation Reform: State Educat...
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The Obama administration's Race to the Top competitive
grant program initiated an unprecedented wave of state
teacher-evaluation reform across the country. To date,
most of the scholarly analysis of this activity has
focused on the design of the evaluation instruments or
the implementation of the new evaluations by districts
and schools. But little research has explored how
"states" are managing and supporting the implementation
of these reforms. This paper offers an assessment of how
early adopter states' departments of education have
undertaken the preparation and implementation of new
evaluation systems. It also identifies challenges and
lessons that can be used to guide future reform efforts
in this area. This assessment of the activities of state
departments of education is based on comparative case
studies of six states: Colorado, Delaware, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Tennessee. These
particular states were selected because they are "early
adopters" in the area of teacher-evaluation reform and
because their states and/or education agencies have
undertaken different approaches to implementing the
reforms. Two of the states--Tennessee and Delaware--were
initial Race to the Top winners, while the other states
won smaller grants in later rounds. Research consisted of
a review of the scholarly and think tank research on
state education agency capacity and teacher-evaluation
systems; analysis of reports and data from the state
education departments' websites and from organizations
such as the Council of Chief State School Officers; a
study of media coverage of the reform efforts in the six
states; and 15 interviews with national experts on
teacher-evaluation reforms and state education agency and
local education agency staff in each state. Interviews
are appended. (Contains 48 endnotes.)
Date Published: 2016-03-09 20:57:53
Identifier: ERIC_ED539744
Item Size: 28341337
Language: english
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