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Tag: Bayesian analysis

  • Cooks, Chefs, and Teachers: A Long-Form Debate on Evaluation (Part 3a)

    StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I have been debating teacher evaluation approaches since my blog post about why evaluating teachers based on student test scores is misguided and counterproductive.  Our conversation began to touch on the relationship between anti-poverty activism and education reform conversations, a topic we plan to…

  • Eric Lerum and I Debate Teacher Evaluation and the Role of Anti-Poverty Work (Part 2)

    StudentsFirst Vice President Eric Lerum and I recently began debating the use of standardized test scores in high stakes decision-making.  I argued in a recent blog post that we should instead evaluate teachers on what they directly control – their actions.  Our conversation, which began to touch on additional interesting…