Teacher perceptions of change : an evaluation of the network for educator effectiveness system

Abstract

Their feedback was invaluable and provided the guidance needed to complete this project. Also, thank you to Donna Aldrich and the other members of Cohort 8. Their friendship and accountability made the completion of the coursework and dissertation enjoyable. I learned a lot from each of them. Lastly, thank you to God for meeting all my needs according to the riches of your glory in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).

Implementation of a new teacher evaluation program : principal and teacher perceptions

“…3), but this requires shared understandings across all participants, as teachers are evaluated through classroom observations, student surveys, units of instruction, and professional development plans. At the time of this writing, there was one study, a dissertation (Katzin, 2014), focusing solely on whether teachers' instructional practices changed after their NEE evaluations. A second study (Bergin, Wind, Grajeda, & Tsai, 2017) describes the accuracy of principals' evaluation ratings using the NEE process.…”

“…Despite nearly half of Missouri's schools using NEE, there has been only one study (Katzin, 2014) that examined whether teachers' instructional practices changed as a result of their NEE evaluation and another (Bergin, Wind, Grajeda, & Tsai, 2017) that described the accuracy of principals' evaluation rating using the NEE Program. Other nationwide studies have examined teacher evaluation broadly (e.g., Atkins, 1996;Wang & Day, 2002;Zimmerman, 2003;Zimmerman & Deckert-Pelton, 2003); however, they have used primarily questionnaires to explore teachers' perceptions of the evaluation process.…”