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Originally Posted by GGG
For evaluation you use average student improvement as compared to peers accounting for demographic and economic factors.
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Based on the assessment of the teacher whose job depends on giving good marks? Teachers, students, and parents are soft enough as it is to criticism. We certainly shouldn't be giving any reasons to gift even better marks.
Give standardized tests to every grade at the end of the year, you say? Ed systems around the world are trying to dump these rather than increase their presence. Why? They don't really work in terms of formative learning. Sure, they can let us know approximately the amount of knowledge and problem solving skills have been obtained in a given field, but they also guage how well students write tests, which is inauthentic. The result, teachers teach for the end goal of learning to write this test. This would be especially true if you said their jobs depended on it.
Really, any evaluation system would need to start in the classroom. Big bloated school boards, such as the CBE, that are riddled with inefficiency and entitlement do not emphasize teachers be evaluated after receiving permanent certification. I don't even think schools have the autonomy to do so even if they wanted to. It's just not a priority in a system that is focused on protecting beaurocratic process rather than show real improvement. How can you blame teachers for losing any sense of passion and altruism they may have had when they are typically burdened by their administrators rather than aided.