Teacher Evaluations.The U.S. Department of Education has issued a new research report about public elementary school elementary school: see school. teachers' views of teacher performance evaluations Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return based on a national survey of 1,000 teachers. Among the more significant findings: * Most teachers (89 percent) believe their last performance evaluation provided an accurate assessment of their teaching performance, and 74 percent thought it would help them improve. * Most teachers (94 percent) said the evaluation criteria were known to them before being assessed. * Only 65 percent said subject matter knowledge had been considered in their most recent evaluation. * Most perceived per·ceive tr.v. per·ceived, per·ceiv·ing, per·ceives 1. To become aware of directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing. 2. To achieve understanding of; apprehend. their evaluators were competent to judge their performance in selected aspects of teaching. * Three-fourths Noun 1. three-fourths - three of four equal parts; "three-fourths of a pound" three-quarters common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers indicated that determining pay levels was not an objective of their last performance evaluation. The study, "Public Elementary Teachers' Views on Teacher Performance Evaluations," is available for $3.75 from Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh Pittsburgh (pĭts`bərg), city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio River; inc. 1816. , Pa. 15250-7954. |
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