Linking teacher evaluation and student learning /

Researchers Tucker and Stronge show how, by including measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations, schools can be helped in focusing their efforts to meet higher achievement standards. The volume discusses how four school systems built these measures into their evaluation programs. The authors explore the strengths of the programs, offer insights from teachers and principals, and describe practical ways to incorporate the measures into other evaluation programs. Their comments on how to analyze changes in students' achievement test scores, how to set annual quantifiable goals for students' academic progress, how to track progress on the goals for content standards, and how to document the ways learning outcomes translate into actual student learning should be useful to readers. The detailed appendixes offer hands-on tools and resources to aid in adopting the approaches to a school's specific needs. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners. G. E. Pawlas University of Central Florida