Teacher Effectiveness Ratings Call Evaluations Into Question

Less than 0.5 percent of educators received “ineffective” ratings during the 2013-14 school year, according to data from the Indiana Department of Education. That’s about the same percentage as last year, which is confusing to some as the ratings are based on a relatively new evaluation system that many expected to be tougher. The fact that it has not done so could lead the Indiana State Board of Education to make student test scores a bigger factor in the evaluation system in the future.

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• Source: Chalkbeat
• Via: Chalkbeat Indiana

In the second year of what was intended to be a tough new system of evaluating educators, the results were the same: hardly any were rated ineffective and nearly all were certified as doing their jobs effectively.

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