Strengthening the Teacher-Student Link to Inform Teacher Quality Efforts

Institution	Data Quality Campaign
Titel	Strengthening the Teacher-Student Link to Inform Teacher Quality Efforts
Quelle	(2010), (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Teacher Effectiveness; Program Effectiveness; Stakeholders; Instructional Leadership; Best Practices; Team Teaching; Expertise; Teacher Student Relationship; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Program Implementation; Data; School Districts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Teamteaching; Expert appraisal; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Daten; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	Current state and federal reform initiatives rely heavily on the ability of multiple stakeholders to access and use information from statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to improve student achievement. Policymakers believe that states are best positioned to achieve this by developing and implementing various policies impacting the educator workforce. They will also, for the first time on a larger and more visible scale, use student achievement as one of the primary indicators of both educator and program effectiveness. In this environment, it is critical for state policymakers, educators, and data managers alike to understand the importance of implementing a teacher-student data link in a valid and reliable way. While 24 states report having this link on the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) survey, it is clear that these linkages were not implemented for high stakes use. As a result, state and local data systems lack critical functions including the abilities to: (1) Account for the contributions of multiple educators in a single course; (2) Enable a teacher to review their roster for accuracy; (3) Incorporate common practices found in schools including virtual classes, labs, and team teaching; and (4) Link a student's attendance records with their teachers to track the actual number of days of instruction by a particular teacher. To address this emerging state need, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation tapped into the expertise at the Center for Educational Leadership and Technology (CELT) and funded them to lead the Teacher-Student Data Link Project (TSDL). This project is a cross-state, collaborative effort focused on developing a common, best practice definition of "Teacher of Record" and business processes for collecting and validating linked teacher and student data. This important initiative brings five states together to leverage their collective experiences, knowledge, and resources to determine a common definition and approach to one of the most critical components of their data systems and a key step in using data to increase student learning and improve teacher quality. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Data Quality Campaign. 1250 H Street NW Suite 825, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-393-4372; Fax: 202-393-3930; e-mail: info@dataqualitycampaign.org; Web site: http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10