The Use of 360-Degree Feedback Compared to Traditional Evaluative Feedback for the Professional Growth of Teachers
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: It has been suggested that school systems need to evaluate their teacher evaluation process in order to bring it into alignment with their mission, vision, values and goals as well as provide a meaningful exercise for both the administrator and the teacher.Holland and Garman claim that there is little to no evidence supporting the claims that evaluative supervisory visits to classrooms support instructional improvement.This study investigated the use of the 360-degree feedback process as an option to the single source traditional evaluative feedback for the professional growth of teachers.Empirical research on the use of 360-dgree feedback in elementary and secondary educational settings is quite limited.This study sought to understand teachers' perceptions of the quality of feedback they received from the traditional evaluative feedback to feedback they received from a multi-source feedback process.Results from a 360-degree feedback pilot study were analyzed to determine the effectiveness of this process in a K-12 educational setting.This descriptive study utilized the 360-degree feedback model for K-12 education from Iowa State University.The Research Institute for Studies in Education at ISU provided the surveys used to compare teachers' experiences with the traditional single-source feedback performance evaluation to the feedback they received from the 360-degree feedback process.27 K-12 teachers from a large suburban school district in the Hudson Valley of New York State participated in the project.Results from the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed Ranks Test indicated that the participants in this project found iii -2uamaAajqse quapn2s uo bujsnsoj pue spaau ?uamdoTanap ~e u o j s s a j o ~d buyAjj2uapy ' s ~e o b y3noxb ~e u o j s s a j o x d b u y d o ~a a a p s j maq2 Kuome ' s p a n j o xaqwnu e u j poyqaur Teuo-rrjpen, a y 7 uey2 ~n j d ~a y axour A ~2 u e s ~j y u b j s aq 02 ssaaoxd yaeqpaaj asxnos-rq~nur aq3 Instrumentation ...........
Author: Jo-Anne Mahar
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2134839665