The House education committee is pressing ahead with discussions on the new system for evaluating teachers and teaching ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

Teacher evaluation has, until recently, been a symbolic act largely without meaning or consequence. No longer. Race to the Top requirements call for performance-based pay. The Bill & Melinda Gates ...

As legislators prepare to gavel out for the summer, one piece of pressing education business remains: Albany must finally reform the state’s broken teacher evaluation system and allow school ...

Lawmakers in the Assembly Education Committee approved a bill Thursday that would eliminate annual teacher evaluations, despite opposition from a majority of New Jersey’s education stakeholders, ...

Many studies criticize student evaluations of teaching as biased or a poor measure of teaching effectiveness, or both. But none of these papers are as expansive as a new metastudy of more than 100 ...

Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it.As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come as ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

ALBANY The state Education Department plans to delay the implementation of new teacher evaluations from this November to September 2016, saying that the current deadline is "unrealistic." In a ...