tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589405835312873091.post6195547655873482567..comments2023-03-23T09:51:05.485-04:00Comments on Eduwonkette: Ignoring the great sorting machineeduwonkettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05072705276536120758noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589405835312873091.post-33351295517753490052007-10-23T10:48:00.000-04:002007-10-23T10:48:00.000-04:00My first year, I was assigned all "regular" classe...My first year, I was assigned all "regular" classes. Others had the "honors" classes. My contract was not renewed.<BR/>At the end of the year, I did an analysis of how my students did on the standardized end-of-year test, comparing to the other teachers in my grade for that subject. For "non-honors" students, the difference in the pass rate of my students was not statistically different in the pass rate of all the students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589405835312873091.post-79311711313236504072007-09-26T09:22:00.000-04:002007-09-26T09:22:00.000-04:00Seems like another assumption is that kids are sor...Seems like another assumption is that kids are sorted into a "treatment" that consists of a single teacher. How many kids actually only have one teacher? Virtually all secondary school students have multiple teachers, and lots of elementary school classrooms have teacher aides, traveling teachers, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589405835312873091.post-66150308886263829512007-09-26T08:14:00.000-04:002007-09-26T08:14:00.000-04:00An additional complication is the difficulty of is...An additional complication is the difficulty of isolating that portion of a student's learning that can be attributed to exposure to a particular teacher. Many studies of teacher effectiveness rely on annual standardized tests to assess growth, not recognizing that students are exposed to a teacher only during the school year, and not during the summer. There are many studies that document the phenomenon of summer learning loss, which is not distributed randomly among students -- it's more prominent among low-income kids, who may have fewer opportunities for learning in the summer months than middle-income kids. It doesn't seem fair to hold teachers accountable for the fact that their students may have fewer resources to support learning in the summer than other students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com