Skills, productivity and the evaluation of teacher performance

Douglas Harris and Tim Sass ()

Economics of Education Review, 2014, vol. 40, issue C, 183-204

Abstract: We examine the relationships between observational ratings of teacher performance, principals’ evaluations of teachers’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills and test-score based measures of teachers’ productivity. We find that principals can distinguish between high and low performing teachers, but the overall correlation between principal ratings of teachers and teachers’ value-added contribution to student achievement is modest. The variation across metrics occurs in part because they are capturing different traits. While past teacher value-added predicts future value-added, principals’ subjective ratings can provide additional information, particularly when prior value-added measures are based on a single year of teacher performance.

Keywords: Teacher evaluations; Observational ratings; Value-added (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2014.03.002

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