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Assessing Teacher, Classroom, and School Effects A Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education

Edited By Allan Odden Copyright 2005

    This is Volume 79, Issue 4 2004 of the Peabody Journal of Education and this special issue provides a collection of works on the topic of Assessing Teacher, Classroom and School Effects in the US. The six articles focus generally on new directions in assessing and measuring teacher, classroom, and school effects on improvements in student academic achievement and more specifically analyze the criterion validity and surrounding human resources strategies of new efforts to implement performance-based teacher evaluations, the results of which in some cases are linked to new knowledge- and skills-based teacher salary schedules.

    Volume 79, Number 4, 2004
    Contents: A. Odden, Guest Editor's Introduction. A. Odden, G. Borman, M. Fermanich, Assessing Teacher, Classroom, and School Effects, Including Fiscal Effects. A.T. Milanowski, The Relationship Between Teacher Performance Evaluation Scores and Student Achievement: Evidence From Cincinnati. S.M. Kimball, B. White, A.T. Milanowski, G. Borman, Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Evaluation and Student Assessment Results in Washoe County. H.A. Gallagher, Vaughn Elementary's Innovative Teacher Evaluation System: Are Teacher Evaluation Scores Related to Growth in Student Achievement? H.G. Heneman III, A.T. Milanowski, Alignment of Human Resource Practices and Teacher Performance Competency. A. Odden, Lessons Learned About Standards-Based Teacher Evaluation Systems. BOOK NOTES: A.M. Arani, Comparative Education: Continuing Traditions, New Challenges, and New Paradigms by Mark Bray. M.A. Rebell, Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools by Peter Schrag. T.V. O'Brien, The White Architects of Black Education: Ideology and Power in America, 1865-1954 by William H. Watkins. C. Hart, It's Your Fault: An Insider's Guide to Learning and Teaching in City Schools by Rexford G. Brown. S.P. Heyneman, Comparative Education: Continuing Traditions, New Challenges, and New Paradigms by Mark Bray.

    Biography

    Allan Odden