New York recently set value-added at 20percentt of annual evaluations.
Annual evaluations are often subjective, which opens the door to gender bias.
When it comes to education, laws like No Child Left Behind make progress (in the form of annual evaluations).
All but 109 of 1,200 principals have filed annual evaluations of the city's 80,000 teachers.
Until now, superintendents have received annual evaluations from their community school boards, but not from the chancellor.
Before Karen was promoted to vice president, her annual evaluations had included detailed comments that guided her professional growth.
Instead, annual evaluations would place teachers in one of four categories — highly effective, effective, developing and ineffective.
But according to the annual evaluations that group members write, "people feel more self-confident," Ms. Wilson said.
In another move to strengthen the much criticized National Health Service, general practitioners will begin annual evaluations of their peers in April.
In a January 2000 inspection report, they noted that of 30 resident files they had examined, 14 did not have current annual evaluations, let alone monthly case notes.
The data, and the superintendents' responses to it, will factor heavily into their annual evaluations, which Mr. Levy began conducting last year.
