Getting Teacher Evaluation Right: A Challenge for Policy Makers

This Capitol Hill briefing organized by the American Educational Research Association and the National Academy of Education presented research about a central concern in federal and state policy: How teachers’ effectiveness should be measured and developed.

What kinds of teacher evaluation policies and practices have been found to be effective in identifying and developing high-quality teaching? What policies are likely to support sound teacher evaluation? What do we know about linking value-added measures of student learning to judgments about teachers? Leading education research experts will take on these and other ESEA-related issues, with the goal of outlining what is most productive for teacher evaluation.

SPEAKERS

Edward H. Haertel
Jacks Family Professor of Education, Stanford University
Chair, National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment

Jesse Rothstein
Associate Professor of Public Policy & Economics, University of California-Berkeley
Former Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers

Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University
Co-Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education

Audrey Beardsley
Associate Professor, Division of Educational Leadership & Innovation, Arizona State University

DISCUSSANTS

Bethany Little
Chief Education Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

Lindsay Hunsicker
Senior Education Policy Advisor, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions