Fewer non-tenured teachers were rated in the top two categories under REACH (58%) than under the previous checklist system (87%)¶
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q2 i? In REACH's first year, 58 percent of non-tenured teachers were in the top two rating categories, compared with 87 percent under the previous checklist scale. → Jennie Y. Jiang 2014
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Jennie Y. Jiang 2014¶
Jennie Y. Jiang, Susan E. Sporte, Stuart Luppescu. (2014). Analytic Memo: Evaluation Data from the First Year of REACH. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/analytic-memo-evaluation-data-first-year-reach
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District-wide descriptive comparison of non-tenured teachers' ratings under the prior checklist system versus first-year REACH ratings, reported in the memo's key takeaways: "87 percent of teachers were in the top two categories on the previous scale, compared to 58 percent on the new scale." No significance test is reported.
"Both scales have four categories, but 87 percent of teachers were in the top two categories on the previous scale, compared to 58 percent on the new scale."
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Related Claims¶
- Under REACH fewer teachers received ratings in the top two categories than under the prior checklist system — related
- REACH evaluation ratings rose over time, with nearly 9 in 10 teachers receiving one of the top two ratings by 2016-17 — related
- Missed observations left 24 percent of non-tenured teachers without a REACH rating, concentrated in a smaller number of schools undergoing organizational change — related
- The Danielson Framework identified far more teachers as low-performing than the prior CPS checklist (8 percent vs 0.3 percent) — related
- Lower REACH ratings predicted teacher exit: more than half of unsatisfactory-rated teachers left CPS and low-VAM teachers moved out of tested grades/subjects — related
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Fewer non-tenured teachers were rated in the top two categories under REACH (58%) than under the previous checklist system (87%) |
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Fewer non-tenured teachers were rated in the top two categories under REACH (58%) than under the previous checklist system (87%) |
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