Creating a Comprehensive System for Evaluating and Supporting Effective Teaching

In this Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education report, Linda Darling-Hammond says teacher evaluation should be seen as part of a teaching and learning system that supports continuous professional development, and draws a distinction between teacher quality and teaching quality. She provides five key elements for such a system, considers the limitations of value-added analysis, and offers a list of criteria for effective teacher evaluation based on a review of the research on successful approaches to evaluation.