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My answer to the title question is that teachers adjust to performance metrics similarly to other employees. In my working life, I have been evaluated on how fast I can restock grocery shelves, how many market or political surveys I can perform in an hour, and how many words I can edit per hour. Time we spent on customer service such as checking out groceries interfered with the number of cases of groceries that we could put on the shelf, and we were slow to respond to broadcasts of "All checkers to the front, please." As regards market and political surveys, finding informed respondents with something thoughtful to say slowed us down, and we valued people whose responses were the quick "bumper sticker" cliches from the media. In our early years as editors, we were evaluated solely on words per hour, and quality was tertiary to editing rate and formatting, My point being that corporate management has to be careful when setting performance metrics or team work, customer service and quality will suffer.
George W. Bush won the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election and served as governor from 1995-2000. He became an important part of the transfer of performance metrics from the private to the public sphere when he increased public school funding and simultaneously demanded accountability of teachers, schools and school districts. Teachers' current main performance metric is how their students perform on standardized tests. "Teaching the test" generally results in higher test scores and teachers' performance is judged to be better. Teachers don't do this just to increase their salaries and job security. They are committed to their students, coworkers, schools and districts. Is there something that teachers used to teach that is now missing? If so, what is it? After the fifteen years that standardized testing has evolved, does anyone remember? What I remember is that I graduated from high school in 1964 without ever attending a high-quality Texas public school. I hope I am exceptional in that regard, but my experience means that I have no answer for the above questions. Who does?
George W. Bush won the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election and served as governor from 1995-2000. He became an important part of the transfer of performance metrics from the private to the public sphere when he increased public school funding and simultaneously demanded accountability of teachers, schools and school districts. Teachers' current main performance metric is how their students perform on standardized tests. "Teaching the test" generally results in higher test scores and teachers' performance is judged to be better. Teachers don't do this just to increase their salaries and job security. They are committed to their students, coworkers, schools and districts. Is there something that teachers used to teach that is now missing? If so, what is it? After the fifteen years that standardized testing has evolved, does anyone remember? What I remember is that I graduated from high school in 1964 without ever attending a high-quality Texas public school. I hope I am exceptional in that regard, but my experience means that I have no answer for the above questions. Who does?
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