Technology and Transparency: “Value” in Public Evaluations

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Jasmine Ulmer

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.

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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.