Teacher Effect Data

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Teacher Effect Data

• LEAD Conference
• October 8 -10,2007
• Teresa McClure
• Information Resource Specialist

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TCA 49-1-606b

• The estimates of specific teacher effects on the
  educational progress of students will not be a
  public record, and will be made available only to
  specific teacher, the teachers appropriate
  administrators as designated by the local board
  of education, and the school board members. The
  state department of education shall provide raw
  test score data to LEAs as soon as practicable
  after receipt of such data, but in no case later
  than June 30

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Teacher Reports

• Teacher Copy and Highly Qualified Copy
  delivered unopened to teacher, who signs a dated
  teacher roster acknowledging receipt.
  
• Administrator Copy delivered unopened to
  building principal, who signs a dated roster
  acknowledging receipt.
  
• File Copy maintained in secured location at
  Central Office, destroyed after five years.
  

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Teacher Effect Data

• The analysis of teacher effect data uses
  three-year average gain comparisons teacher vs.
  norm, teacher vs. state, and teacher vs. system
  as an estimated measure of the teachers effect
  on student learning.

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My Scores Have Changed!!!!

• The elementary/middle models are not
  time-dependent.  so--as you know more about a
  student, you better understand the student's true
  achievement in a prior year each time you get a
  new score for the student.  So with this new
  information, it is possible to better estimate
  the teacher's influence on the student in a prior
  year--and this is the best estimate that you
  actually have on that teacher.  RAND has
  published materials that praise TN's value-added
  method that improves the prior year estimates as
  new data are available.  So all the
  reports--district, school or teacher may change
  in the prior year for elementary/middle grades. 
  High schools are a different modeling, and you do
  not have this same protection.  June Rivers

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Information on Report is Wrong/I Didnt Get a
Report

• Send following information by email to
  Teresa.McClure_at_state.tn.us
  
• Name
• Year in question
• District, school, grade, and subject(s)
• Last four digits of social
• Statement of what is wrong

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District/School Mounds of Paper?

• Return undeliverable reports to Field Service
  office.
  
• Maintain deliverable reports for 5 years and then
  shred.

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• Questions concerning Teacher Effect Data
  reports should be directed to
  
• Teresa McClure
• 615-253-4520
• Or
• Teresa.McClure_at_state.tn.us