The Teacher's Evaluation

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The paper, formatted as a literary review, details the contents of four specific articles relating to educational policy as well as the need for better trained and more qualified teachers. The writer of this paper contends and explains why after reviewing the contents of the articles, a better degree of clarity, specificity and efficacy can be introduced to the vacuous assertion that quality of a higher standard is in fact needed in teaching. This paper stresses the dire need for teachers who are more competent and more motivated to teach, regardless of student ability and motivation, to create a better quality of teaching overall. This paper examines the difficulties in evaluating teacher quality as well as the growing tendency for both teachers and schools to inflate students' grades, according to a published report. While student scores on the American College Testing Assessment have remained steady over the past five years, high-schools have been reporting rising grade point averages. This paper also delves into various strategies that have been proven to significantly improve the quality of education while at the same time increasing the financial and professional incentives for teachers to make a commitment to their students as well as to the school, resulting in overall academic improvement.

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"If measuring student achievement is difficult, and thus coming to terms with a adequate assessment of teaching 'quality,' then how does one improve teacher quality. Perhaps, suggests educational researcher Victor Lavy, the real question is not the assessment of incoming teachers or outgoing students. Rather, administrators should ask the question, how to increase existing teacher's incentives to improve the quality of teaching, and once this is determined, make such incentive based-programs an ingrained part of modern education. Lavy has examined performance-related incentive pay for teachers, which has being introduced in many countries. Lavy evaluated a rank-order tournament among teachers of English, Hebrew, and mathematics in Israel. Over the course of the study, teachers were rewarded with cash bonuses for improving their students' performance on high-school matriculation exams."

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