Information and Employee Evaluation

摘要

As part of the incentives built into its $4.3 billion Race to the Top Fund, the federal government is prodding states and school districts to use data on growth in student achievement to measure teacher effectiveness, and then to implement policies to "recruit, develop, reward, and retain effective teachers." But some would argue that teaching is a multidimensional task with varying goals and that basing employee evaluations strictly on objective performance measures may lead to dysfunctional behaviors, including cheating on standardized tests.