Research
Do Teacher Ratings of Their Principals Influence Their Own Evaluation Scores?
Post Date: March 10th, 2020NEE’s Director of Operations and Member Services Kurtis Jensen recently completed his dissertation research examining whether principals’ personal relationships with teachers affect teachers’ classroom observations scores. Using data from the Network for Educator Effectiveness, Dr. Jensen sought to understand whether there was a correlation between the personal relationship of the teacher and principal and the
Not Just Generalizability: A Case for Multifaceted Latent Trait Models in Teacher Observation Systems
Post Date: February 6th, 2020When classroom observations are used to evaluate teachers, how do we know that the ratings teachers are given are trustworthy? The purpose of this study was to illustrate a way to evaluate the quality of classroom observation ratings.
What do teachers think about their evaluations? A case study of teachers’ perceptions of the NEE evaluation system
Post Date: September 26th, 2019What do teachers think about their evaluations? That was the question Dr. Keith White, principal at Buffalo High School in Buffalo, Mo., sought to answer through his dissertation research, which he recently shared with the Network for Educator Effectiveness.
Principals’ use of rating scale categories in classroom observations for teacher evaluation
Post Date: March 15th, 2019Is the structure of the NEE scoring rubric comparable across various teaching episodes and teaching practices? And do the NEE scoring rubrics function as intended across various teaching episodes and teaching practices?