So, the Tennessee Department of Education has generated a handy sheet explaining all the exceptions to the rules regarding TVAAS and teacher evaluation:. No adverse action may be taken against a teacher or principal based on their decision to nullify his or her LOE. There are three composite options for this teacher:. The option that results in the highest LOE for the teacher will be automatically applied. The entire basis of this spurious claim is that two things happened around the same time.
Also happened since Tennessee implemented new teacher evaluation and TNReady? Really successful seasons for the Nashville Predators.
Correlation does NOT equal causation. While legislators passed the bill late in the session, the Tennessee Department of Education was left to implement policy. As this school year is up and running, teachers and administrators are asking what to do with data from Helpfully, the TDOE released this handy guidance document.
Well, maybe. But, the always thoughtful TDOE is ahead of the game. They also have a guide to nullification. This guide makes clear that even if a teacher chooses to nullify his or her entire LOE for , no adverse action will impact that teacher. Due to the upcoming release of TVAAS reports for the school year, some of the data from the reporting will no longer be available.
If you would like to save value-added and student projection data from the reporting, you must print or export that data by September TVAAS users are reminded to follow all local data policies when exporting or printing confidential data. But wait, the data is crucial for teachers who choose to nullify their LOE.
Why is a significant portion of this data being deleted? The test was plagued by hackers, dump trucks, and mixed up tests. Still, the TDOE plans to use that data to update student projections. These projections will then be used to assign value-added scores going forward. Or, it could be. It really depends on how the scores impact the projected performance of given students.
Now, teachers are being told that future student growth projections will be based on data from this test. It certainly could also have a rather negative impact. The potentially adverse action of allowing the TNReady scores to impact future growth scores for teachers and schools has not been addressed. By the way, we now have the following set of apples, oranges, and bananas from which we are determining student growth:. Your support keeps the education news coming!
Teacher and blogger Mary Holden writes about her experience with TNReady this year as she reflects on a survey sent by the Comptroller. Through all this frustration and stress with the online testing platform and connectivity issues, students were told to do their best because this test was going to count for 20 percent of their class grade. They were stressed. They were angry. They felt they were being jerked around by the state of Tennessee.
In the middle of the testing window, we learned that scores would not count. And they still had to continue testing! It was unreal. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 60, is amended by adding the following language as a new section: Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no adverse action may be taken against any student, teacher, school, or LEA based, in whole or in part, on student achievement data generated from the TNReady assessments.
Yes, it seems problems with testing in Tennessee are the norm rather than the exception. Heading into the November election is a great time to talk with candidates for the legislature and for Governor about the importance of evaluations that are fair and not based on voodoo math like TVAAS.
Remember, even under the best of circumstances, TVAAS would not have yielded valid results this year. If you enjoy the education news provided here, consider becoming a patron! Now, all districts can take this action if they choose. The Department of Education took some steps to clarify what that means for teachers and offered a handy pie chart to explain the evaluation process:.
Second, this chart is crazy. Last year was the first year of a full administration of TNReady, and there were a few problems with the data calculation. In fact, transitioning to a new type of test creates validity issues.
The way to address that is to gather three or more years of data and then build on that. Notably, this includes districts with a wide range of academic achievement and student demographics. And, in , fewer districts earned Level 1 and Level 2 scores, showing that more districts have students who are growing at or above the expected amount. These results point to the ability for all students to grow. However, these results also underscore the urgent and important work we have in front of us as we transition to more rigorous standards that ultimately ensure postsecondary and workforce readiness.
In particular, while we see some bright spots in growth in both the Achievement School District and iZones in Shelby and Knox Counties, we did not meet expected growth in the vast majority of our Priority schools being served through both state and district interventions.
The department is engaged in further analysis of these results as we collectively take critical next steps. Both sites provide detail on value-added methodology, descriptions of each report, and instructions on how to compare the performance of different schools and systems. For example, a student who is behind academically may show significant academic growth but not be proficient on the end of year test. Another student may also not be proficient on the end of year test, but not show any growth.
Align professional development efforts to the areas of greatest need. Student expectations are not built on a single score but on a multi-year, multi-subject measure so high or low performers are expected to perform in line with their own history of performance.
When teachers are effective, their students will not lose ground, even if their students are initially high-performing.
The converse of this can be true as well.
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