Californians support making teachers'reviews public. http://www.latimes.com.
A new survey showed that California voters want to use students test scores as an important factor to evaluate the teacher’s performances and then show these evaluation to public. Blume (2011) reported that 58% of the voters believed that the quality of public school would be better if the public can review the evaluations,while 23% said that it make things worse. About 900 of 1500 voter wanted the test scores to be counted at least 30% of an instructor’s evaluation. Furthermore, most of them wanted to use other measures like parents feedback, classroom observation.
In Los Angeles where test scores and evaluations are the important points in contract negotiations, the LA unified school district superintendent still refuses to make the review of public. On the contrary, the teachers union and some experts opposed using test scores as a factor to rate teacher. Blume also showed that the voters complain about teacher union: "Have too much influence over public education policy and stand in the way of improving schools."
Test score should not be a factor to evaluate the teachers' performance. It is not teacher's fault if a student perform poorly. So it is really unfair for teachers
ReplyDeleteI think students test scores are not an important factor, but it's just one of many factors to evaluate teachers' performances. Other methods should be also use to evaluate such as classes' performance or students' grade.
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