Teacher Evaluation Rubric Properties and Associations with School Characteristics Evidence from the Texas Evaluation System

REL Southwest analyzed the 2014/15 pilot implementation of the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) to understand certain properties of the T-TESS rubric, which consists of 16 dimensions classified within 4 domains of teacher effectiveness. The dataset included over 8,000 teachers across 251 schools and 51 districts that participated in the pilot. This conference poster highlights the study and its key findings, broken down by research question.