A Statewide Study of Superintendent, Administrator, and Teacher Perceptions of Administrators' Abilities to Evaluate Teachers

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to elicit teacher, administrator, and superintendent perceptions of the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES). The researchers created three twenty-five question Likert-based questionnaires (one each for teachers, administrators, and superintendents) to learn their experiences, attitudes, opinions, beliefs, knowledge, etc. with OTES thus far. The participants included 3,383 teachers, 720 administrators, and 212 superintendents Based on the analysis of the data, the researchers learned that most teachers, administrators, and superintendents have participated in the OTES and administrators and superintendents were more confident than teachers in administrator ability to evaluate teachers with the OTES and teachers were very skeptical of the perceived benefit to teaching and learning from the OTES followed closely by administrators and superintendents.

Authors

• Nicole Williams, The University of Findlay

• Jon Brasfield, The University of Findlay

• Kathleen Crates, The University of Findlay