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The aim of this study was to Investigate the views. of educators on Performance Management Systems In the Department of Education, with special reference to Madlbogo Circuit schools. The views of 40 educators from School Management Teams were obtained regarding the system. The findings of the study revealed that there are Inadequate Performance Management Systems in place for educators In the North West Department of Education. This Is a challenge facing Human Resources Management Practitioners and relevant stakeholders in the Department, because the primary orientation of Performance Management is developmental through effective response to consistent inadequate performance as well as recognising outstanding performance. Failure to Implement and manage Performance Management Systems will result in low motivational levels, which In tum will lead to unsatisfactory performance and high turnover. Therefore the researcher suggests some recommendations based upon the results of the study to address the problems inherent in the current status-quo. / (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2005

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M.Ed. / Although education remains a key for preparing South Africa to be part of the competitive global world, school managers continue to threaten educator appraisal that is undoubtedly an important aspect towards the realization of schools' effectiveness and efficiency. The researcher investigated how management styles impact on the developmental appraisal system in schools. The study was conducted in four selected schools in the Johannesburg North district in Gauteng and the study was conducted through the use of ethnographic interviews and observations. While the Department of Education and the unions advocated an appraisal system that aims at improving teaching and learning experience through educator development, research findings suggest that schools are complex organizations, some management styles contribute to the dismal failure of the appraisal system and the appraisal system will in practice waste educators' valuable time for teaching.

The purpose of the study was to explore the nature of teacher expertness and its attainment. The study was founded upon studies of expert teaching practice and studies of cognitive development. Data for the study were collected from forty secondary school teachers in one large school district in British Columbia. Data analysis involved two procedures. The first was a form of content analysis designed by the researcher to examine teachers' explicit and implicit descriptions of teaching practice. The second, done in order to gain insight about the nature of expert teachers, was an adaptation of Baltes’ method of identifying five wisdom criteria. These criteria are factual knowledge, procedural knowledge, contextualism, relativism, and uncertainty. Some themes that were found to pervade teachers' discussions were also reported and discussed separately. It was found that listening to expert teachers as they discuss their practice confirms what is known about expertness in a number of domains as well as what is known about expert teaching practice. New insights about expert teaching practice are yielded by paying attention to what is implicit in teacher-talk. It was also found that the model developed by Baltes and his associates was useful in extending knowledge of the teaching domain and might well be applied to studies of experts in other domains. Three principal conclusions were drawn. Expert teachers are prepared to assume responsibility for their own continuing development They appear not to be prepared to assume that responsibility for their less expert colleagues. It was also concluded that administrative officers in secondary schools do not increase the expertness of teachers through the supervision of instruction and that the practice of instructional supervision for this purpose requires further study. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

This study reports a survey of teacher perceptions of the teacher evaluation process. Three hundred fifty-three practicing British Columbia teachers responded to a fifty-six item questionnaire designed to investigate their experiences with teacher evaluation and to estimate their satisfaction and confidence with respect to the instruments, the procedure and the evaluators. Information was obtained about the reports, their style, distribution, frequency, and availability to teachers; the evaluation techniques used, including visitation for observation and forms of communication with the teachers; and reactions of teachers to the reports, the evaluators, and the process in general. The design of the questionnaire highlights the position of the principal as an evaluator as compared to that of other evaluators. Open-ended questions were included to clarify response in some areas. Opinions were sought in some more general areas to test the existence of perceived need for change, to obtain teachers’ suggestions as to the direction such change might take, and to sample teachers' perceptions as to the efficacy of teacher evaluation practices for the improvement of instruction. Major conclusions were that present practice is essentially inspectorial in nature and only partially oriented to the improvement of instruction; that teachers generally accept present practice though substantial minorities express lack of satisfaction and confidence with respect to many aspects of it; and that teachers are divided as to whether the principal's roles as evaluator and educational leader conflict. / Education, Faculty of / Educational Studies (EDST), Department of / Graduate

M.Ed. (Education Management) / The crux of the teacher evaluation problem is the use of unidimensional approaches in an attempt to measure the multi-dimensional behaviours ,involved in teacher effectiveness. Such one-dimensional approaches are subjective, unreliable and evaluate superficially. The confidentiality of teacher evaluation data between teacher and evaluator must be maintained. Teacher effectiveness is a multi-dimensional contextual concept. Evaluation is a goal-directed activity. The evaluation of teacher effectiveness is thus a purposeful action attempting to measure a contextual concept, the interpretation being paradigm related. The multi-dimensionality of teacher effectiveness necessitates the consideration of all possible variables from the teacher environment. The preoperational variables such as personality, attitude, teaching experience and achievements are concerned with the person of the teacher. These "teacher-as-person-variables" serve as a basic source to motivate the various teaching behaviours. A second source of input variables are the various contextual variables such as school climate, socio-economicstatus of the pupils and opportunity to participate in joint decision-making. The particular distinctiveness of these variables accentuates the contextuality of teacher effectiveness. Process variables learning process. and instruction effectiveness. are used in an attempt to evaluate the teaching Effective lesson-planning, classroom management are chosen in an attempt to measure teacher Outcome or product variables such as pupil achievements, quality of relationships and job satisfaction serve as objective measures of teacher effectiveness. The learning process and hence the effectiveness of teachers is affected by pupil appearances, cognitive and personality differences. In an attempt to evaluate the many variables involved in teacher effectiveness the de~elopment of a multi-dimensional teacher evaluation system is attempted. These variables must be integrated into a multi-dimensional appraisal system so that. the teacher is evaluated in totality. The evaluation of high-inference pre-operational or presage variables occur most often by means of evaluation scales. A knowledge of the teacher's philosophy of life and attitude towards teaching would enable a better understanding of those aspects of the personality that affect the effectiveness of teachers. Evaluation of process variables occur during observation of the teaching process. The use of observation instruments such as those of Kounin and Flanders enable the objective recording of classroom behaviour. Cosgrove's Forced Choice Procedure and~he system of verbal interaction categories are both formative in nature and serve to satisfy the professional teacher's need for self-evaluation. Pupil achievements serve as a source for the evaluation of product variables. These achievements may be determined by the use of either norm-referenced or ideographic tests whilst simultaneously serving as 'n measure of teacher effectiveness. Pupils achievement marks and I.Q. can be standardised to serve as a basis for dertermining pupil achievement according to potential. Feedback of evaluation data to the teacher must be done with empathy and compassion. In the hands of the professional evaluator, multi-dimensional evaluation can play a vi tally important role in the enhancement of teacher effectiveness.

Thesis advisor: Marilyn Cochran-Smith / The Massachusetts edTPA Pilot and Field Test (2010-2013) was launched by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to evaluate the possible adoption of edTPA within that state. Guided by Cochran-Smith et al.’s(2013) Politics of Policy Framework, this mixed-methods study examines this policy initiative by analyzing the dominant national media of the era using Stone’s (2002) concept of “metaphors and analogies” as well as interview data from 21 teacher educator participants from the five pilot educator preparation institutions. Findings indicate that multiple dominant frames permeated the national and Massachusetts media narrative, specifically a focus on efficiency, equity, and liberty. These frames were used by both proponents and opponents of edTPA implementation. Moreover, despite many similarities between pilot institutions, implementation of the Massachusetts, edTPA evolved differently in each organization due to multiple institutional-level factors, including access to resources, strength of institutional leadership and organization, level of program coherence, and presence or absence of a strong internal accountability system. Consistent with co-construction theories of policy implementation (Datnow & Park, 2009) this study unpacks the iterative and dynamic nature of policy development and implementation. In doing so, it highlights the real-world complexity of policy implementation at the institutional level and how policy can be interpreted and implemented differently in varying contexts. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

"I intend to show in this paper the reasons, favorable and unfavorable, for teacher evaluation. In Chapter IV I will attempt to emphasize some underlying factors of a true teacher evaluation plan"--Introduction. / "August, 1954." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: H. W. Dean, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 20-22).

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