Teacher performance in the classroom should be judged on the impact they have on exam and test results over time, according to a new report.
The study, Testing Teachers, published by the Sutton Trust, found this was the best way of predicting a teacher’s long-term success, out of the three most common ways of assessing teacher effectiveness.
The research, by Richard Murphy of the London School of Economics, showed that pupil test scores were twice as accurate as student surveys, and nearly three times more effective than classroom observations.
The study comes at a time when the government wants teachers to be paid according to their performance and has given schools freedom to develop their own teacher appraisal methods.
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