While educators, policymakers, and parents may agree
on the importance of teacher effectiveness and the need for more effective
teachers, they often use different criteria to judge whether schools are doing
their job, according to RAND Education experts who spoke Saturday at RAND's
Politics Aside event in Santa Monica.
“When we look at school level effectiveness, we
oftentimes see that some of the schools that parents think are the best are not
actually getting the most gains in student outcomes,” V. Darleen
Opfer, director of RAND Education, said during a panel discussion on
“Measuring the Unmeasurable.”
Parents have different priorities for what they want
in teachers, like a nurturing teacher versus a strong disciplinarian, as well
as for what they want in schools, such as prioritizing the amount of
extracurricular activities offered. These subjective attributes of both
teachers and schools can contribute to the disconnect between a parent's
evaluation of a school and those of others.
Policymakers have, in recent years, focused their
assessment of teachers and schools on the progress students make on
standardized achievement tests. The panelists noted that more and more states
and districts have begun using value-added measures which tell how much
learning gain is achieved by teachers during the year while controlling for
student inputs such as past achievement and socio-economic status. These
measures have sometimes shown that schools that are perceived as good using
other criteria have smaller learning gains than parents probably realize.
However, the quality of existing tests varies, which
limits their utility for understanding teachers' contributions to student
learning, and test scores alone don't capture qualities that observers might
hope schools are promoting, such as citizenship or social skills, said Laura
Hamilton, associate director of RAND Education.
Panel moderator and journalist Malcolm Gladwell
asked: Can a school be judged as “good” based on a quality that is not related
to the effectiveness of its teachers?
“I'm not sure you can have a lot of teacher
effectiveness in a school that does not have the conditions to support that,”
Opfer replied. The collaboration that happens in successful schools allows
teachers to do their jobs well, she said. At the same time, Hamilton pointed
out that in such highly collaborative environments it can be difficult and even
counterproductive to measure an individual teacher's contribution to student
learning gains.
The panelists noted the importance of transparency
to promote effective school choice and accountability. Parents and others need
access to high-quality information that goes beyond simply indicating which
schools serve high-performing students and instead provides evidence of how
schools are contributing to improved outcomes for all students.
The discussion was part of RAND's Politics Aside
event, a post-election forum that brings together policymakers,
philanthropists, and RAND experts for a nonpartisan examination of pressing
policy challenges.
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