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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Should SAT And ACT Scores Be Used For NYC Teacher Evaluations?

They might be:

A host of city public-school art, gym and other teachers will be rated next year not by their students’ work but by how their schools do on state math and reading exams.

Schoolwide results will count for up to 40 percent of teachers’ ratings in subjects that don’t have standardized tests, such as health and some languages.

State Education Commissioner John King, compelled by state law to craft the city’s evaluation system, made schoolwide results the default if principals don’t select other rating tools.

“Student scores reflect the work of many personnel, and in some schools, schoolwide measures may be beneficial to support increased collaboration and accountability amongst staff across all grades and subjects,” he wrote in his 241-page evaluation plan.

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The plan also opens the door for high-school teachers to be held accountable for how their students do on such standardized exams as the SATs, ACTs and AP.

Those are among the third-party exams that the schools chancellor or principals can tap for rating teachers in classes where no state or city exams exist.

How would you like to have the SAT be used for your evaluation?

I'm sure College Board hack David Coleman would love that.

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