Monday, The Lens detailed how teachers prepare to administer annual standardized tests. They must follow the state’s proctoring rules or risk being fired.

Teachers could also be fired if their students don’t score well.

Right now, teachers are judged subjectively — at the beginning of the year, the principal and a teacher discuss how well they think kids will do on tests. But going forward, teachers will be judged on whether their students meet expected outcomes on tests, based on their past performance, behavior and other variables.

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Jessica Williams stays on top of the city's loosely organized collection of public schools, with a special emphasis on charter schools. In 2011 she was recognized by the Press Club of New Orleans for her...

7 replies on “Audio: Louisiana teachers to be judged more based on students’ performance on tests”

  1. Seems like we are wasting $50,000 of taxpayer money on the BESE contract for Dr. Douglas Harris to study VAM/COMPASS that could be better used in the classroom. And according to this article! there is high risk of a lawsuit if the legislature does not intercede to end the use of high stakes testing to evaluate teachers.

    http://m.washingtonpost.com/local/education/good-teaching-poor-test-scores-doubt-cast-on-grading-teachers-by-student-performance/2014/05/12/96d94812-da07-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html
    Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performance

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    Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performance.

    BY LYNDSEY LAYTON May 13 at 12:01 AM
    In the first large-scale analysis of new systems that evaluate teachers based partly on student test scores, two researchers found little or no correlation between quality teaching and the appraisals teachers received.

    The study, published Tuesday in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association, is the latest in a growing body of research that has cast doubt on whether it is possible for states to use empirical data in identifying good and bad teachers.

  4. Plenty more but I won’t hog the conversation. His about hosting a few teachers who are experts on VAM and COMPASS – Dr. Mercedes Schneider for starters. Author of A Chronicle of Echoes:
    Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education.

  5. Lee Barrios – whar da hell you been? 4gawdsake (dat’s Japanese for…) WDH – Wat Da Hell

  7. Hey Lee Barrios, thanks for da link. Now I see what u been doin’. May da Schwartz be wit U!

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