{"id":19098,"date":"2013-06-17T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19098"},"modified":"2013-06-17T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:34:32","slug":"what-ohio-has-learned-from-three-years-of-teacher-evaluation-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/06\/17\/what-ohio-has-learned-from-three-years-of-teacher-evaluation-data\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ohio Has Learned From Three Years Of Teacher Evaluation Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Math<\/a>

John O'Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p>

Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our colleagues at StateImpact Ohio are diving into three years of state teacher evaluation data in a series of stories this week with The Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The stories talk to teachers rated “most effective” about how they approach the job, analyze if there is a correlation between evaluations and pay and gives readers interactive ways to explore state and school evaluation data.<\/p>\n

Ohio has a statewide teacher evaluation that makes it easier to compare teacher scores — known as value-added — across district lines.<\/p>\n

While the evaluations are intended to account for factors such as a student’s socio-economic status<\/a>, StateImpact Ohio and the Plain Dealer<\/em> found that students in wealthy school districts were more likely to have a teacher earning a high evaluation score<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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An analysis by\u00a0StateImpact Ohio\u00a0and the Cleveland\u00a0Plain Dealer\u00a0found that most teachers fall in the middle of the rankings.<\/p>\n

Our findings also show that students in wealthy districts are three times more likely to have teachers with the highest value-added scores than their peers in high poverty schools, who are more likely to encounter teachers rated \u201cleast effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, to put it another way, teachers in poorer districts overall aren\u2019t doing as well as their peers in richer districts at adding a year\u2019s worth of knowledge.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say that a teacher\u2019s very low on value-added doesn\u2019t in and of itself tell you that that\u2019s a bad teacher,\u201d ODE\u2019s Matt Cohen says. \u201cWe can\u2019t say that, and we\u2019re not trying to say that. We are trying to say that\u2019s a piece of information that a teacher, and the school should make use of.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They also talk to a teacher who earned rave reviews from students and administrators<\/a>, but is leaving the profession after receiving the lowest score of “least effective.”<\/p>\n

You can read the entire StateImpact Ohio and Plain Dealer<\/em> series here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A similar comparison is more difficult in Florida because the state law allows school districts more flexibility<\/a> in developing their evaluations. For instance, in some districts student test scores account for 40 percent of the total evaluation while test scores are half the evaluation score in other districts.<\/p>\n

Florida law requires school districts to start paying teachers based upon their evaluation scores starting next year.<\/p>\n

For StateImpact Florida’s coverage of teacher evaluations, click here<\/a>. To explore school teacher evaluation data, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our colleagues at StateImpact Ohio are diving into three years of state teacher evaluation data in a series of stories this week with The Cleveland Plain Dealer. The stories talk to teachers rated “most effective” about how they approach the job, analyze if there is a correlation between evaluations and pay and gives readers interactive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[842,1119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19103,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19098\/revisions\/19103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}