Designing teacher evaluation systems : new guidance from the measures of effective teaching project / / Thomas J. Kane, Kerri A. Kerr, and Robert C. Pianta, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830446003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, Calif. : , : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, , 2015; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-119-21085-2; 1-118-83722-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 641 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 371.144
• Soggetti: Effective teaching; Teachers - Rating of; Educational evaluation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Why measure effective teaching? -- Section 1: Using data for feedback and evaluation -- Chapter 2: Grade-level variation in observational measures of teacher effectiveness -- Chapter 3: Improving observational score quality: challenges in observer thinking -- Chapter 4: How framework for teaching and Tripod 7Cs evidence distinguish key components of effective teaching -- Chapter 5: Making decisions with imprecise performance measures: the relationship between annual student achievement gains and a teacher's career value added -- Chapter 6: To what extent do student perceptions of classroom quality predict teacher value added? -- Section 2: Connecting evaluation measures with student learning -- Chapter 7: Combining classroom observations and value added for the evaluation and professional development of teachers -- Chapter 8: Classroom observation and value-added models give complementary information about quality of mathematics teaching; Chapter 9: Does the test matter? Evaluating teachers when tests differ in their sensitivity to instruction -- Chapter 10: Understanding instructional quality in English language arts: variations in PLATO ; scores by content and context -- Chapter 11: How working conditions predict teaching quality and student outcomes -- Section 3: The properties of evaluation systems: issues of quality, underlying frameworks, and design decisions -- Chapter 12: Evaluating efforts to minimize rater bias in scoring classroom observations -- Chapter 13: Scoring design decisions: reliability and the length and focus of classroom observations -- Chapter 14: Assessing quality teaching in science -- Chapter 15: Evidence on the validity of content knowledge for teaching assessments -- Chapter 16: Optimizing resources to maximize student gains -- Conclusion: Measuring effective teaching -- the future starts now.
• Sommario/riassunto: Definitive research for meaningful teacher evaluations. All across America, in urban, suburban, and rural schools, teacher evaluation procedures are much-debated. Evaluation processes for teachers have varied over the years, and the usefulness of those processes to improve and assess the quality of a teacher''s instruction has been questionable and often non-existent. Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems: New Guidance from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project provides you with original research from an extensive study that will help you rethink and redesign teacher evaluation procedures.

Cruel and unusual : the culture of punishment in America / / Anne-Marie Cusac

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956784403321
• Autore: Cusac Anne-Marie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-41588-3; 9786612415883; 0-300-15549-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 318 p
• Disciplina: 364.60973
• Soggetti: Punishment - United States - History; Prisons - United States - History; Prison administration - United States - History; Prisoners - United States - Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-302) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When Punishment Is the Subject, Religion Is the Predicate -- 2. ''A Heart Is Not Wholly Corrupted'' -- 3. Reforming the Reforms -- 4. Punishment Creep -- 5. Vigilantism and Progressivism -- 6. The Devilish Generation -- 7. Flogging for Jesus -- 8. Pain Becomes Valuable Again -- 9. Pop Culture and the Criminal Element -- 10. Stunning Technology -- 11. The Return to Restraint -- 12. Abu Ghraib, USA -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us? This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation's early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the ; dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal and capital punishment, and punitive physical pain. And she links this new climate of punishment to shifts in other aspects of American culture, including changes in dominant religious beliefs, child-rearing practices, politics, television shows, movies, and more. America now punishes harder and longer and with methods we would have rejected as cruel and unusual not long ago. These changes are profound, their impact affects all our lives, and we have yet to understand the full consequences.