Do Teachers with Higher Standards-Based Evaluation Ratings Close Student Achievement Gaps?
Borman, Geoffrey & Kimball, Steven. (October 2005). Elementary School Journal, 106(1). Using standards-based evaluation ratings for nearly 400 teachers and achievement results for over 7,000 students from grades 4-6, this study investigated the distribution and achievement effects of teacher quality in Washoe County, a mid-sized school district serving Reno and Sparks, Nevada. Classrooms with higher concentrations of minority, poor, and low-achieving students were more likely to be taught by teachers with lower evaluation scores. Two-level multilevel models, nesting students within classrooms, tended to show higher mean achievement in classrooms taught by teachers of higher than of lower quality, with differences of approximately one tenth of one standard deviation. Findings relating teacher quality to closing within-classroom achievement gaps, though, were mixed.
Related Questions
- If the required 40 percent student achievement ratio is currently not part of our Teacher and Principal Evaluation system - must it be included in our evaluation system to receive RTTT funds?
- How are teachers or schools that raise student achievement rewarded?
- How may teachers better understand their student ratings?
