The controversy over the value of teaching evaluation surveys completed by students has led to increased calls to include some type of faculty observation as part of one’s teaching dossier. Those ...

Hours before the state-installed management board of Houston ISD approved a new system for evaluating the performance of teachers, the administration was still scrambling to confirm the legality and ...

NEW ORLEANS —A little boy with a plastic dinosaur toddles over to his teacher at Clara's Little Lambs Preschool Academy, in the Algiers neighborhood on the west bank of the Mississippi. “Oooooh!

Houston ISD overhauled the rubric used to evaluate how well teachers perform during spot evaluations of their classrooms, one of the major factors in teacher evaluations that determine salaries under ...

Teachers might be at a disadvantage during classroom observation of their instructional practice, which is one of the most widely-used tools for high-stakes job performance evaluations. And whether or ...

As states and districts implement more rigorous teacher evaluation systems, measures of teacher performance are increasingly being used to support instruction and inform retention decisions. Classroom ...

Black and male teachers in Tennessee consistently receive lower classroom observation scores than their peers, according to a new study from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance. Black teachers ...

The principal of Banana Kelly HS in the South Bronx has faked classroom observations of her faculty, staffers charge. “She’s destroyed the integrity of the whole evaluation system,” an insider told ...

AdvancED has launched eleot, a student-focused classroom observation tool designed to help improve student engagement. Eleot, for Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool, "enables school ...

Although classroom interaction analysis is currently in wide use, there is no effective analysis of lecture, particularly in the college classroom. For that reason, the BAtchelder - KEane Lecture ...