Abstract
In external evaluations and school inspections, experts rate instructional quality based on a set of empirically confirmed criteria of good teaching. For this rating, teams of evaluators use different information sources, including observations and surveys. The present study examines to what extent information from observations and surveys contribute to the final rating results. The findings show that both information sources explain different degrees of variance of the final rating, depending on the evaluation criterion used. These results are used to discuss the methodological implications of contemporary procedures employed in Germany when estimating instructional quality in external evaluations and school inspections.
| Translated title of the contribution | Which information sources do evaluation teams use for estimating instructional quality in external evaluations? |
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| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 197-215 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Unterrichtswissenschaft |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2013 |