Parent surveys for school teacher evaluation

✍ Scribed by Kenneth D. Peterson

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 624 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1874-8597
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00127458

✦ Synopsis

The improvement of public school teacher evaluation is a topic of considerable interest in the research literature and in professional practice. One suggested direction for better evaluation is to develop sources of data about teacher performance in addition to the traditional administrator reports. Principal visits, particularly as a sole data source about teachers, have been criticized as inadequate and even misleading. Parent viewpoints of teacher performance have been discussed by a number of authors as a promising but undeveloped source of information for evaluation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of parent surveys in two Utah school districts where such surveys are a part of the career ladder teacher evaluation systems.