Student Growth Measures in Policy and Practice: Intended and Unintended Consequences of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluations

294 Pages·2016·3.789 MB·English

by  Kimberly Kappler Hewitt, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley (eds.)

Edited by Kimberly Kappler Hewitt
and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
Student Growth Measures
in Policy and Practice
Intended and Unintended Consequences
of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluations
Student Growth Measures in Policy and Practice

Kimberly Kappler Hewitt • Audrey A mrein-Beardsley
Editors
Student Growth
Measures in Policy
and Practice
Intended and Unintended Consequences
of High-S takes Teacher Evaluations
When Theoretical
Models Meet School Realities: Educator Responses to Student
Growth Measures in an Incentive Pay Program
Editors
Kimberly Kappler Hewitt Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
University of North Carolina Arizona State University
at Greensboro Tempe , Arizona, USA
Greensboro, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-53900-7 ISBN 978-1-137-53901-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53901-4
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: The Use of Student Growth Measures for
Educator Accountability at the Intersection of Policy and
Practice 1
Kimberly Kappler Hewitt and Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
Part I 27
2 When Theoretical Models Meet School Realities:
Educator Responses to Student Growth Measures
in an Incentive Pay Program 29
Jennifer King Rice and Betty Malen
3 Teachers’ Voices: Where Policy Meets Practice 4 9
Jody Longo-Schmid
4 Measuring Student Growth: A View from the Classroom 7 3
Jonathan Eckert
5 Practitioners’ Responses to Washington’s Required Use
of Student Growth Measures in Teacher Evaluation 9 5
Margaret L. Plecki , A na M. Elfers , E lise St. John ,
and T heresa Ling Yeh
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