Please read the link in this comment. Kafkateach has been trying, again and again, to find out what her VAM score for 2011-2012 was. No one will tell her. No one knows. It is being calculated. It is being recalculated.
If it takes two years to find out what your evaluation score is, what value does VAM add?
Will someone be sure to let Arne Duncan and Bill Gates know?
She writes:
The new and improved teacher evaluations in my district have proven to be nonexistent. It’s March 12th 2013 and we still have yet to receive evaluations and our VAMs for the 2011-12 school year. The state, the district, and the union have been tossing around the stinking pile of value added bogosity like a hot potato. Nobody wants to accept responsibility for the data. Millions of public school dollars have been wasted on designing an evaluation system that is so flawed, cumbersome, and complicated it can’t even be used. You can read more about my quest for VAM herehttp://kafkateach.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/the-quest-for-vam.
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At least Jebster has taken care of his crew. Too bad the schools and teachers wasted so much time, effort and opportunity on this scam/sham. But it never really was about teaching and learning anyway.
Run Jebster, run….
Cumbersome sounds like an understatement, more like tower of Babel gridlock.
Reblogged this on thefreshmanexperience and commented:
I have to wonder if Ohio’s Teacher Evaluation System (OTES) will be like Florida’s Evaluations…
A politically enabled and defended self repairing Gordian Knot of profit extraction. It’s always been about the profits, they just never expected the system itself to fail so badly that not even a smoke screen for it’s fundamental purpose would be provided by it. Just as Bloomberg’s mess in NYC transpired with their useless VAM scores, be prepared for the declaration of victory in FL in the face of no evidence whatsoever about anything.
as usual it will take the courts to step in and stop this nonsense– see the old Warren Zevon chestnut!