Sunday, October 12, 2014
Dan Grass Response to Peer-to-peer evaluation.
This article brings up a very interesting point for me. Peer evaluations are a dangerous subject. I worry that in a situation where you have many peers evaluating many different teachers, you lose the consistency that you need to have a successful evaluation system. Can you trust a system where a teacher evaluates one person but a completely different teacher evaluates the others? What happens when evaluations become a reason a teacher is unable to get a future job? Does that then fall back on the teacher who did the evaluating? It's important that if you do this style of evaluation that you really focus on the guided questions to lean the evaluation towards a successful method. On a positive note, as an administrator, this frees up time to be able to focus on other problems plaguing the school. I'd like to see research on what the success rates are of school assessment programs that are centered around the self evaluation.
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Dan,
ReplyDeleteWe are in agreement that peer to peer evaluations are a very slippery slope. If teachers are formally trained on how to evaluate someone than that might be ok, but I know for a fact that the majority of teachers have no formal training on that subject. I believe that schools could peers to asses other teachers but they would be informal and to use as an educational tool for the teacher being assessed. I think they could be helpful if they were only informal. I would never want another teacher being responsible for my evaluation.
Casey