Modern Approaches To Teacher Performance Assessment

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Azerbaijan Journal of Educational Studies. 2018.

№3

Modern Approaches to Teacher


Performance Assessment
An Overview of Foreign Publications
Olga Temnyatkina 1, Daria Tokmeninova 2

Authors: Abstract. The need to develop a national teacher growth


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Olga Temnyatkina, system requires that the existing approaches to assessing
Candidate of Sciences in the quality of teaching be analyzed. This article provides
Pedagogy, Associate Professor, an overview of foreign publications devoted to the problem
Sverdlovsk Oblast Institute for of teacher performance assessment. Two major approaches
Education Development. are described: assessing teacher performance through stu-
Yekaterinburg, RF. dent achievement and formative assessment based on
E-mail: oltemnyatkina@mail.ru teacher observation and follow-up feedback. Foreign re-
searchers believe that there is no reason to expect that
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Daria Tokmeninova, student achievement will be in complete alignment with
Candidate of Science in the size and quality of teacher effort, as too many factors
Economics, Leading Expert, beyond the teacher’s control are in play. Some researchers
Skolkovo Institute of Science suggest ways to increase the validity of using student at-
and Technology. Moscow, RF. tainment data in assessing teacher performance. Formative
E-mail: assessment of students is being gradually introduced into
dtokmeninova@yandex.ru instruction processes, but formative assessment of teacher
performance is only beginning to emerge in school practices.
This article explores the methods and techniques of formative
Keywords: teacher assessment and presents the first findings on their
School teachers, teacher opportunities and limitations. Most authors of the publica-
assessment, formative tions discussed here agree that the system of teacher per-
assessment, feedback, formance assessment should be organized to foster the
professional growth. professional and personal development of teachers.

DOI: 10.17323/1814-9545-2018-3-180-195

To cite this article: Temnyatkina O,, Tokmeninova D. (2018) Modern Approaches to Teacher Performance Assessment
An Overview of Foreign Publications. Voprosy obrazovaniya/Educational Studies Moscow. 2018. No 3, pp. 180–195

110 http://journal.edu.az

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