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It would be a perverse incentive to get struggling kids out of your class and off your record. Same flawed logic behind No Child Left Behind. Underfunding pro

• gnicholas 2y ago
  Sure, you’d want to use students’ incoming skills and trajectory to make sure you’re not penalizing teachers who have lots of low-performing kids.
  • permo-w 2y ago
    that doesn't solve the stated problem
    • gnicholas 2y ago
      There isn’t an incentive to get rid of a student who is low-performing if that aspect is taken into account when calculating the teachers’ impact on student success.
      • permo-w 2y ago
        a student who is low-performing is not necessarily a student whose grades are low. they could also be a student who struggles to improve. and let's not forget the other perverse incentive here: if growth is all that's taken into account what happens to the students whose grades are already good?
        • gnicholas 2y ago
          It wouldn’t just be looking at grades, of course. If you have a 5th grader getting A’s that turns into a 6th grader getting A’s, no one would assume they haven’t learned anything. You could look at scores on the many standardized tests that kids already take, in combination with grades.
          • permo-w 2y ago
            scores on standardised tests != grades?
            • gnicholas 2y ago
              No, of course they don’t! This is especially true with the adaptive tests that are now used, which allow students to demonstrate competency well above grade level.