Marion & Buckley: Considerations for Non-Tested Grades

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This paper is designed to help policymakers and accountability professionals wrestle with the challenges of using student performance information as a component of educator evaluations when yearly state standardized tests are not available. We first present a brief overview of potential measurement tools and analytic approaches for non-tested subjects and grades followed by a discussion of some technical challenges inherent in these tools and approaches. Based on this discussion, we offer recommendations for how states may proceed with creating educator effectiveness systems given the technical challenges that exist. We recommend that states apply a theory of action to their educator effectiveness system to illuminate those approaches that might be fraught with the greatest challenges and those that might have the most potential in measuring educator effectiveness, and consider broadening student learning objectives as a framework for incorporating student performance information in educator evaluations.

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