What Does District Performance Evaluation Mean to Teachers?

• In Event: Park Central Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Professional Development and Evaluation of Teachers

Abstract

The decision in the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is a flag of reform, which points"promote the separation of management and evaluation management system further, improve the internal governance structure of school..." As an effective policy instrument, performance evaluation became popular at schools all over the world. Evaluation could influence teachers' behavior, especially in the background of using the evaluation result to accountability and permit pay (Rose,2013;Duke, 1990). High stakes assessment may influence teachers' teaching enthusiasm(Winefield,2001;Guskey,2000). Education reforms in Chinese local level attracted attentions recently,but did these policies work in China?
This study aims to answer these questions: (1)Is teachers' behavior influenced by the local assessment policy? (2) How the local assessment policy impact teachers' behavior?

Authors

• xinran Jiao, Beijing Normal University

• Qian Zhao, Beijing Normal University