An Examination of Performance Based Teacher Evaluation Systems in Five States

<p>An examination of performance-based teacher evaluation systems in five states was conducted by the 2006-2011 REL Northeast and Islands at Education Development Center Inc. This study reviewed state education agency websites and publicly available documents for all 50 states to identify states whose performance-based teacher evaluation systems met certain criteria similar to the guidelines set forth in the 2009 Race to the Top grant competition.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>