Evaluating America's teachers : mission possible? /: mission possible?. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: W. James Popham.
• Other Names: Popham, W. James
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. What Underlies the Tightening of Today's Teacher-Evaluation Programs?; What Uncle Sam Wants; A Federal Vision of Teacher Evaluation; What Could Go Wrong?; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 2. Human Judgment: Needed or Not?; Human Judgment's Role; Evaluation Basics; What about the Evaluation of Teachers?; Judgment-Requisite Choices; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 3. Defensible Teacher Evaluation; The Wonders of Whereas; Why Use a Weighted-Evidence Judgmental Approach to Teacher Evaluation?; A Weighted-Evidence Judgment Evaluative Survey; Who Are the Judges?; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 4. Evidence from Standardized Tests; Key Testing Tenets; Why We Test; A Psychometric Blessed Trinity; Standardized Test- Two Tribes, Two Tasks; Traditional Test-Building and Its Off-Task Allure; The Origins of Traditional Educational Testing; Dealing with Effective Instruction; Ensuring Score-Spread from the Get-Go; Instructional Sensitivity as a Requisite; Returning to Validity; Evidential-Weight Guidelines; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 5. Evidence from Classroom Assessments; Staking Out the Nature of "Classroom Assessment"; A Quest for Evidence of Student Growth; Formative and Summative Applications; Enhancing the Quality of Classroom-Assessment Evidence; Evidence of a Teacher's Instructional Ability; What's Assessed; The Traditional Psychometric Triplets; Following Test Development, Improvement, and Scoring Rules; Have Teachers Played it Straight?; Evidential-Weight Guidelines; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 6. Evidence from Classroom Observations; What's Distinctive about Classroom Observations?; Observations Versus Ratings; Playing the Odds: Observation of Instructional Means; An Observational Reality: The Mysterious Middle Group; Getting the Most Evaluative Mileage Out of Classroom Observation Evidence; Two Widely-Used Observation Procedures; Danielson's Framework for Teaching; The Marzano Model; Evidential-Weight Guidelines; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 7. Evidence from Ratings; Rooting Around with Ratings; Lurking Comparisons; Amalgam Judgments; Three Flavors of Bias; Administrators' Ratings; Students' Ratings; Making Ratings Righteous; The Rating Form; Rater Preparation; The Old and the New; Evidential-Weight Guidelines; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 8. Evidence from Sundry Sources; Alternative Sources of Evidence for Evaluating Teachers; Academic Achievements; Changes in Students' Affect; Lesson Plans; Opportunity-to-Learn Student Surveys; Parental Engagement; Parent Ratings; Professional Development; Ratings by Colleagues; Student Interviews; Teacher-Made Tests; Teachers' Self-Ratings; Augmentation or Obfuscation?; Evidential-Weight Guidelines; Chapter Implications for Three Audiences; 9. Mission Possible?; Weighted-Evidence Judgment of Teachers: A Reprise; What To Do- And How?; Chapter Imlpications for Three Audiences; Responding to a Subtitle; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: 371.1440973; Teachers -- Rating of -- United States; Teacher effectiveness
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483307558; 1483307557
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