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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Well, actually, I think the more appropriate analogy would be if doctors were rated and evaluated mostly on the outcome of patients, regardless of (1) what condition they arrived in or (2) what circumstances in their life that are outside the doctor's control may be worsening their situation, instead of rating them by whether the doctor followed the standard of care and provided adequate treatment.

[b]That's what the system is doing when most of a teacher's rating is based solely on the outcome of one test administered one time a year, rather than on how they are actually performing in the classroom, covering the curriculum, serving students' different levels and needs, etc.[/b]

Think of those hospital ratings that are based on mortality rates, where they have to make the caveat that their usefulness is limited because trauma centers and high-level hospitals that receive the worst patients have higher mortality rates. And it's not because they provide worse care.
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When I taught at the college level, I had teacher evaluations from students, along with student grades and observations from the department head. Clearly, IMPACT is moving towards that direction but instead of student evals they use test scores.[/quote]

How much weight was given to student evals, was there a specific percentage? Were they strictly numeric or did your appraiser take into account the subjectivity of the source, wide disparities, etc.? How much weight was given to students' grades? More than 50%?  Were you expected to have a specific percentage of your students achieve the highest grades? It doesn't sound to me like your evaluations were necessarily very similar to IMPACT based DCPS evaluations.[/quote]

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