Teacher Response to Feedback From Evaluators: What Feedback Characteristics Matter?

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Abstract

Many states are implementing new teacher evaluation systems and are seeking information about how evaluators can best use evaluation findings to provide individualized feedback. Survey data were used to examine teachers’ perceptions of evaluator feedback and to explore how characteristics of feedback and response to feedback are interrelated. Correlational analysis finds that response to feedback is related to teachers’ perceptions of four characteristics: usefulness of feedback, accuracy of feedback, credibility of their evaluator, and access to resources. Structural equation modeling analysis suggests that in responding to feedback, teachers’ perceptions of the usefulness of feedback and the credibility of their evaluator could be more important than their perceptions of the accuracy of feedback and their access to resources.

Authors

• Trudy Cherasaro, Marzano Research

• Marc Brodersen, Marzano Research Lab

• Mary Maguire Klute, Marzano Research

• David Yanoski, Marzano Research Laboratory