New York State Teacher Evaluations Are Rigged

[Smarmie Doofus]

Danielson again. Classroom observations.

In the Westchester County leafy green of Scarsdale , no teachers are observed to be "highly effective," ( that would be *zero* teachers).... or 4 on a 1-4 point scale.

A few towns up and over, in Pleasantville, 99% of classroom teachers are observed to be "highly effective".

It's pre-arranged. "Policy", if you will.

Arne? Where are ya? This *is* what you wanted. No?

From Perdido Street blog:


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New York State Teacher Evaluations Are Rigged

Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy has a piece at LohHud on the absurdity of the New York State APPR teacher evaluation system, showing how the classroom observation component can be rigged by district leaders.

For instance, Scarsdale has decided that no teacher will be rated "highly effective" in the classroom observation component.

Pleasantville, on the other hand, gave out "highly effective" ratings to 99% of their teachers in the classroom observation component.

The Pleasantville superintendent defended that decision:

Pleasantville schools Superintendent Mary Fox-Alter defended her district's classroom observation scores, which use the Danielson model — saying the state's "flawed" model had forced districts to scale or bump up the scores so "effective" teachers don't end up with an overall rating of "developing."

"It is possible under the HEDI scoring band (which categorizes teachers as "highly effective," "effective," "developing" and "ineffective&quot to be rated effective in all three areas and yet end up as developing," Fox-Alter said, adding that she understood Danielson's concern.

the rest ( if you can stand it): http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-york-state-teacher-evaluations-are.html