Student Growth Measures in Policy and Practice

Chapter 1 Introduction: At the Intersection of Policy and Practice:The Use of Student Growth Measures for Educator Accountability.- Chapter 2 When Theoretical Models Meet School Realities: Educator Responses to Student Growth Measures in an Incentive Pay Program.- Chapter 3 Teachers’ Voices: Where Policy Meets Practice.- Chapter 4 Measuring Student Growth: A View from the Classroom.- Chapter 5 Practitioners’ Responses to Washington’s Required Use of Student Growth Measures in Teacher Evaluation.- Chapter 6 The Role of “Informational Significance” in Shaping Louisiana Elementary Teachers’ Use of High Stakes Teacher Evaluation Data for Instructional Decision Making.- Chapter 7 What Counts as Good Teaching? How a Student Growth Percentile Model has Defined Teacher Quality at one Urban Middle School.- Chapter 8 Section I Discussion: How do Educators Use Student Growth Measures in Practice?.- Chapter 9 “First, Do No Harm?”: A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making in Teacher Evaluation.- Chapter 10 The Future of Student Growth Models in Managing the Teacher Workforce: Less Direct, More Indirect.- Chapter 11 An Analysis of the Meaning and Use of Student Learning Objectives.- Chapter 12 Judging Teacher Evaluation: The Legal Implications of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation Policy.- Chapter 13 Section II Discussion: Student Growth Measures in Evaluation: Illusions of Fairness?.- Chapter 14 Might the Tidal Wave Recede? Considering the Future of Student Growth Measures in Teacher Accountability.