The phrase "a principal evaluation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to assessing the performance or effectiveness of a principal in an educational setting.
Example: "The school board conducted a principal evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the leadership in improving student outcomes."
Alternatives: "a headmaster assessment" or "a school leader review".
Pennsylvania schools are about to adopt a teacher and principal evaluation system that will use the high stakes test scores of children in determining the so called "effectiveness" of our teachers and principals.
A new teacher and principal evaluation system was outlined in New York's application to the federal Race to the Top program, which netted a $700 million grant, though efforts have stalled as some school districts and teachers' and principals' unions, including those in New York City, have been unable to agree on how to proceed.
We offer a general definition of the term principal evaluation, followed by an explanation of its components including: evaluation purpose, object to be evaluated, information describing the object, standards for evaluators, criteria for performance, and uses of results for making decisions.
A range of stakeholders has created a range of meanings to the term principal evaluation.
To be eligible to apply for money, a "state must not have any legal, statutory or regulatory barriers to linking data on student achievement or student growth to teachers and principals for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluation," according to a summary of the proposed rules.
Rather, I propose that teachers be evaluated on three criteria: student data, principal evaluation and peer review, which would encourage an enduring teamwork culture within and across departments that is the hallmark of great schools.
Just prior to returning to private practice at Oklahoma's largest law firm where she is today, Taylor served on the Oklahoma gubernatorial cabinet as Chief of Education Strategy and Innovation, leading the bipartisan passage of one of the most significant pieces of education reform legislation in the nation, calling for a mandatory statewide framework for teacher and principal evaluation.
In addition to the principal evaluation criteria, the reviewers are asked to give a final publication recommendation: "Do you recommend acceptance of the manuscript?" Here, the response categories are: (1) yes, without alterations, (2) yes, after minor alterations, (3) yes, after major alterations, and (4) no.
Role-based and outcome-based principal evaluations were the first two concepts introduced to the study of principal evaluation.
With time, increasingly detailed models of principal evaluation have been suggested.
