Should Standardized Tests Be Considered In Student Evaluations?

Should student achievement on standardized tests be considered in teacher performance evaluations? This is a question that has been going around many schools all over the United States. A lot of research has been done to answer this question, most of which gives reasons as to why it should not be considered in teacher performance evaluations.

Student achievement on standardized test should not be considered in teacher performance evaluations. Research tells us that teachers vary enormously in their ability to improve students’ performance on standardized tests but that many existing teacher evaluation and reward systems do not capture that variation. Students are randomly placed with a teacher. It wouldn’t be fair to base it on the teacher’s