Goal 3: Develop talent in teaching and leading through a sustainable, comprehensive program of performance-based evaluation and support Objectives Research Questions Data Collection / Sources 3.1: By June 2014, What factors facilitate or impede Site visits – 100% of REIL School the implementation of a semi-structured Districts will implerigorous, transparent, and fair interviews with ment and validate a evaluation system? district officials rigorous, transparent, To what degree are the teacher Principal and and fair evaluation evaluation instruments valid and teacher surveys system with interreliable, adequately AIMS data rater reliability that distinguishing between levels of Local formative asuses multiple performance? sessment data evaluations and To what degree is the inter-rater measures to deterreliability between evaluators? mine teacher/ What is the correlation between the principal ratings on the instrument and effectiveness. student achievement? 3.2: By June 2011, How do these communication strucSite visits – semi100% of REIL School tures differ? structured interDistricts will impleWhat are some promising strategies views with district ment a communicathat districts are using to effecofficials tion structure to tively communicate the perPrincipal and ensure that teachers formance measures to teachers teacher surveys and administrators and principals? Observe committee will understand the To what extent do teachers and meetings; specific measures of principals understand and supprofessional teacher and principal port the performance measuredevelopment effectiveness included ment systems? sessions; in the performancecoaching sessions based evaluation system. 3.3: By June 2013, To what extent are job-embedded, Site visits – 100% of REIL School differentiated professional semi-structured Districts will impledevelopment and support interviews with ment a high quality system for teachers and district officials professional developprincipals being implemented as Principal and ment and support intended? teacher surveys system for teachers What are teachers’ and principals’ Professional Growth and administrators perceptions of the benefits of Plans linked to performance these plans? -based evaluation system.
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Analytic Strategies Qualitative analysis of interview data Correlational analysis of teacher evaluation measures with teacher value-added scores
Qualitative analysis of interview data Descriptive quantitative analysis of survey data
Qualitative analysis of interview data Descriptive quantitative analysis of survey data