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(5,402 posts)I took the same courses. Socio-economic status is the strongest indicator of academic success, followed by the education level of the parents.
You are mistaking my criticism of the original post and teacher unions in their current form as criticism of teachers. That is not the case.
I'm not saying the evaluations cause inferior classroom pedagogy. I'm saying they are useless because the evaluators are unqualified to do the task. I taught math and science, and I almost always had an administrator who taught history or PE or some other unrelated subject evaluating me.
Still, here are some links to expert opinion and research
"In your typical teacher evaluation system, its mostly the principals and some assistant principals who do evaluations."
Praise inflation
Little or no correlation between teacher evaluations and results.