Ratburntro44 wrote:One question; how would you measure performance? When you find an unbiased way to do that, please email Henry Walchester with your plan and a full explanation of how it won't be biased.
Performance can be measured by a number of ways. No one way is perfect and I'm not certain if some of them are indeed completely unbiased:
1) Test scores in the teacher's class (known issue with this is teachers shoving information down students throats, not caring about real teaching and making learning an interesting experience).
2) Teacher's rating questionnaires which will be filled up by students, parents and management (a separate questionnaire for each party, dealing with different issues, such as the teacher's level of knowledge, courtesy, professionalism, etc.). The down side to this is of course turning it into a popularity contest, with students in particular getting back at their less favourable teachers.
3) Similar to #1, teachers who have the lowest rating of drop-outs. Of course, this will be difficult on teachers who receive the "tough" classes. For these particular teachers, perhaps this can be mitigated by adding a factor that positively shifts the score a little bit more in their favour, to compensate their hard "starting ground".
These are just a few off the top of my head...
