http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-are-we-buying-effectiveness-measures-from-our-upcoming-online-guide/ Oklahoma Policy Institute Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-are-we-buying-effectiveness-measures-from-our-upcoming-online-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Paul Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:15:29 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=2452#comment-437 Great questions, John. There are fairly well-established links between good outcomes and early childhood education, but less so between good outcomes and merit pay (or good outcomes and test scores). We applaud TPS for thinking that there are better ways and hope they succeed in finding them. Great questions, John. There are fairly well-established links between good outcomes and early childhood education, but less so between good outcomes and merit pay (or good outcomes and test scores). We applaud TPS for thinking that there are better ways and hope they succeed in finding them.

]]> http://okpolicy.org/blog/budget/what-are-we-buying-effectiveness-measures-from-our-upcoming-online-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-430 john thompson Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:14:51 +0000 http://okpolicy.org/blog/?p=2452#comment-430 Any thoughts about the Tulsa School Systems' big news? On one hand Kaiser is investing $15 million in community preschool which is the researched way to go. But they are also gambling on a $55 million Gates grant for merit pay. They will hire someone to create a statistical model for evaluating growth in each teachers test scores. For the most part, those models have been shown to be invalid for individual teacher evalutations. Will there be an exodus of teachers from poor schools? Will schooling become nonstop test prep? Is this a bait and switch to break unions one by one? We can't root for failure. But I'm not hopeful. Any thoughts about the Tulsa School Systems’ big news? On one hand Kaiser is investing $15 million in community preschool which is the researched way to go. But they are also gambling on a $55 million Gates grant for merit pay. They will hire someone to create a statistical model for evaluating growth in each teachers test scores. For the most part, those models have been shown to be invalid for individual teacher evalutations. Will there be an exodus of teachers from poor schools? Will schooling become nonstop test prep? Is this a bait and switch to break unions one by one? We can’t root for failure. But I’m not hopeful.

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