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Originally Posted by Sliver
The students' grades are a pretty obvious measure of the teacher's ability to teach the subject matter.
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A students improvement over the course of a year relative to the average improvement shown by students in similar demographic circumstances is the measure of a good teacher.
I wish I remember what book I read about a bunch of data analysis on the No child left behind program and you could tell which teachers were cheating, which were mediocre and which were producing sustained consistent results several standard deviations above other teachers.