teacher evaluations

Evaluating the McREL teacher evaluation audit

Boise School District Superintendent Don Coberly examins the questions provided by the committee and used by the auditors and how they relate to Idaho Code and practice.

Educators feel betrayed over teacher evaluation audit

Looking at this whole situation, lots of groups have made some fairly serious errors, and principals are not one of those groups.

Ybarra calls for schools to stand tall in wake of teacher evaluations audit

An independent audit found that 99 percent of teacher evaluations screened were inaccurate or incomplete.

UPDATED: What’s next for teacher evaluations? Quality and accuracy

The State Board of Education will oversee another audit and utilize university researchers to train school administrators in assessing teachers.

Idaho educators developed the standards used to audit teacher evaluations

The audit revealed that 99 percent of the evaluations were either inaccurate or incomplete.

Audit finds 99 percent of teacher evaluations were inaccurate or incomplete

Auditors reviewed a random sample of 225 teacher evaluations from 53 districts and found only three that were completed correctly.

Idaho to stay the course with teacher evaluation model

The state will keep its evaluation tool in place. For the past two years, the state has received and accepted inaccurate teacher evaluations data from districts, prompting lawmakers and the State Board of Education to take action.

Winslow says collecting new data ‘is doable’

The executive director of the Idaho Association of School Administrators says his board members aren’t concerned about sharing out the new metrics, only the time commitment of the collection process.

The State Board’s surprise response to a data problem

The State Board wants to crack down on bad teacher evaluations data. When the idea went public this week, education leaders were caught off-guard.

More errors uncovered in state’s flawed teacher evaluation report

Leaders of two additional school districts said they inaccurately reported awarding identical evaluation scores to all teachers in order to meet a state reporting deadline.