Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  homersimpson writes:
in response to TruthBeTold:  Thanks for all that information.
So does that mean that a "rock solid" teacher that is doing
their job who does not teach a class with an EOC and that is at
a school that has average EOC test scores that show less than a
years progress - will have an overall evaluation of a 1 or 2?
An EOC teacher is only scored against the scores of his/her
students. So the chances of an EOC teacher not matching the eval
scores to the TVAAS scores are not great. It's pretty difficult
to get a five unless you script your class for the eval. This is
also what drives teaching to the test.  A non-EOC teacher (65%
of HS teachers) will have much bigger problems. Non EOC teachers
have scores based on the entire student population of the school
including students the teacher may have never or will never have
in the classroom.  A good teacher at a failing high school is
going to get lower scores.  This system was ment to fit all
teachers in