Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: Research and Best Practices

Browse these reports and studies for details of the research that is informing development of the Teacher Effectiveness Evaluation. More links will be added as studies are published in this emerging field.

• Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: A Resource for Teachers, Administrators, Policymakers, and Parents — a set of online materials from Rand Education, including “Teachers matter: Understanding teachers' impact on student achievement” and “Multiple choices: Options for measuring teacher effectiveness”
  
  
• The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness by Daniel Weisberg, Susan Sexton, Jennifer Mulhern and David Keeling, for the New Teacher Project
  
  
• Linking Teacher Evaluation to Professional Development: Focusing on Improving Teaching and Learning by Laura Goe, Kietha Biggers and Andrew Croft, for the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
  
  
• Working with Teachers to Develop Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project
  
  
• A review of “The long-term impacts of teachers: Teacher value-added and student outcomes in adulthood” by Chetty, Friedman and Rockoff, from the What Works Clearinghouse
  
  
• Online teacher resources