At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...

Fifty years since the first teacher evaluation system was introduced, Cyprus is bound by the EU to modernise it. As civil servants and modernisation always make for uneasy bedfellows, it should come ...

Wendi O’Halloran, a former teacher and a director at Northwestern State University’s School of Education, talks about why Louisiana’s teacher evaluations are important and how educators can use them ...

Evaluating teaching effectively requires thoughtful alignment with evidence-based practices and the inclusion of diverse perspectives. The Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) supports departments and ...

When economics faculty members at James Madison University received their annual evaluations this summer, some of them were taken aback. Had their teaching gotten much worse all of a sudden? Six ...

Cambridge Public Schools has doubled its staff since 1998, while the district’s student population — and their test scores — remain largely unchanged. “All of our educators are great, and yet there’s ...

Linda Darling-Hammond, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Edward Haertel, Jesse Rothstein, Phi Delta Kappan Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers agree that most current teacher evaluation systems do ...

If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know that we often return to the problem of how teaching is evaluated. It comes up when professors talk about the incentives (or lack thereof) ...

As legislators prepare to gavel out for the summer, one piece of pressing education business remains: Albany must finally reform the state’s broken teacher evaluation system and allow school ...

K–12 school software provider PowerSchool today announced its employee management tool Unified Talent now includes the Danielson Group’s Framework for Teaching to further streamline and simplify ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...