Technology and Transparency: “Value” in Public Evaluations
Location
Room 3030
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2013
End Date
January 2013
Abstract
Technology has enabled “transparency” in education. Although teaching once occurred behind closed doors, educators now increasingly find that individual value-added evaluations have been made accessible to the world through online databases. Teachers find themselves publically labeled and stigmatized, and within the center of a heated online debate. This phenomenological study explores how public evaluations have affected the lives of individual teachers in New York, Los Angeles, and Memphis.
Technology and Transparency: “Value” in Public Evaluations
Room 3030
Technology has enabled “transparency” in education. Although teaching once occurred behind closed doors, educators now increasingly find that individual value-added evaluations have been made accessible to the world through online databases. Teachers find themselves publically labeled and stigmatized, and within the center of a heated online debate. This phenomenological study explores how public evaluations have affected the lives of individual teachers in New York, Los Angeles, and Memphis.
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