How do the characteristics of a classroom affect a teachers rating?
Our initial analysis made adjustments to individual student scores based on their status as English-language learners. Our new database also adjusts for the educational level of each student’s parents. However, student performance can also be influenced by the collective characteristics of a class. Consequently, we’ve made a further adjustment for the whole class, taking into account the percentage of English-language learners and the average educational level of its students as well as race. Because the district did not provide us the race of individual students, we adjusted for race at the grade level.
