Relationships between principals' ratings of teacher performance and student achievement

✍ Scribed by Richard P. Manatt; Bruce Daniels

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 705 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1874-8597
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00126127

✦ Synopsis

A principal's judgment must be based on observations, formal and informal, of teachers' and students' behaviors while teaching and learning is going on and comparisons between those behaviors and the principal's own conception or model of effective teacher behavior. Reasonable as this procedure seems, the research clearly indicates that it is not working. Why not? Is it because principals are not very good observers, because their conceptions or models of effective teacher behavior are erroneous, or because, although they possess these abilities, for some reason they cannot or do not use them? (Medley & Coker, 1987).

The lament of Medley and Coker raises key questions that ought to be driving the research on teacher performance evaluation for the next decade.