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exploring factors affecting teachers’ use of observational data in teacher evaluation
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Nordin
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Timothy L.
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Timothy Nordin
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Firestone
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William A Firestone
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chair
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Drew H
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internal member
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Lugg
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Catherine A
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Catherine A Lugg
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Blitz
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Cynthia L
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Cynthia L Blitz
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014-10
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2014
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eng
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With the advent of a time of intense focus on the use of teacher evaluation in the United States as a mechanism for both formative development of teachers and summative actions affecting their careers, schools, districts, and states have rushed to implement new, enhanced systems of teacher observation and evaluation throughout the country. As many of these new programs are in their infancy, little attention has been paid to how the data generated within these new systems are being used, and what factors affect the usability of such data. While the research literature has focused on data use in the form of data driven decision making in other areas of education (see, e.g., Marsh, Pane & Hamilton, 2006) as well as on improving the reliability and validity of teacher evaluation (see, e.g., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2013), studying how teachers use evaluation data is a relatively unexplored field. Using survey and qualitative focus group data from one state’s teacher evaluation pilot program, this study explores the ways in which teachers participating in a new evaluation system perceive their data use from observations. Additionally, teacher perceptions around how a number of affective factors –such as time, observer capacity, trust, and data quality, among others –play a role in influencing their ability to use data are explored. These questions help to support the conceptual framework and theory of action presented in the study. The study finds that teachers see themselves using data in three main ways: to improve practice, to learn about the system, and non-use of data. Additionally, teachers believed that many system functions, as well as data quality issues, were important factors that facilitated or hindered their ability to use the data delivered to them from their observation sessions. The study concludes by developing several hypothetical relationships between these factors and teacher data use, as well as acknowledging study limitations and avenues for further research.
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Education
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Teachers--Rating of--United States
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Teachers--Training of--United States
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Education and state--United States
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (ix, 207 p. : ill.)
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by Timothy L. Nordin
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3H70F3W
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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