Summary of "Using Student Growth to Evaluate Educators of Students With Disabilities: Issues, Challenges, and Next Steps"

In an effort to inform state and district practices, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, the Council of Chief State School Officers, Assessing Special Education Students State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards, and ETS collaboratively convened a two-day forum (September 26-27, 2011) for select stakeholders to discuss the challenges and help inform policy, practice, and research regarding the use of the growth of students with disabilities for measuring teacher effectiveness. This Forum Summary documents the results of this forum including a description of the benefits, challenges, state and district considerations, implementation implications, and needed research in the current methods used to measure student growth for the purposes of teacher evaluation.