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Raymond Pecheone

Stanford University

Raymond Pecheone, Ph.D., is the Co-Executive Director of the Stanford School Redesign Network and the Director of the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT) program, a consortium of 18 California Universities that have joined together to develop a reliable and valid measure of teacher quality. Formerly, Ray was the Connecticut Bureau Chief for Curriculum and Teacher Assessment and developed the first performance-based licensure and inductions system for teachers in the nation. In addition, he co-founded INTASC, the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium, and co-directed the first Assessment Development Laboratory for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Ray has helped to develop the design for revamping the New York State’s Regents Examinations, served as a consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers and ETS for the development and validation of a performance-based assessment for school administrators (which is currently used by fifteen states), and consulted with numerous state education departments. Ray has published widely in the area of teacher and student assessment. Ray received is Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Email Raymond Pecheone at pecheone@stanford.edu

NEPC Publications

NEPC Review: The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences (TNTP, June 2009)

Raymond Pecheone and Ruth Chung Wei
Daniel Weisberg, Susan Sexton, Jennifer Mulhern, and David Keeling
The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences

The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences, published in June 2009 by the New Teacher Project, examines how 12 school districts across four states use teacher evaluation to make human resources decisions. It then proposes how to build teacher evaluation systems that are more credible and useful. Overall, the report portrays current practices in teacher evaluation as a broken system perpetuated by a culture that refuses to recognize and deal with incompetence and that fails to reward excellence. However, omissions in the report’s description of its methodology (e.g., sampling strategy, survey response rates) and its sample lead to questions about the generalizability of the report’s findings. In addition, while the rationale for the report’s policy recommendations is sound, the proposals are restricted to the findings from the study and fail to consider or to draw upon any promising teacher evaluation strategies in current use. Transforming the system rather than tinkering around the edges will require broader thinking and a commitment to provide much greater investment and support for innovation to build, test, and audit evaluation systems that can stand up to public scrutiny and be practically feasible.

Suggested Citation: Pecheone, R.L. & Wei, R.C. (2009). Review of “The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences.” Boulder and Tempe: Education and the Public Interest Center & Education Policy Research Unit. Retrieved [date] from http://epicpolicy.org/thinktank/review-Widget-Effect

NEPC Review: Giving Students the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need (September 2006)

Ash Vasudeva and Raymond Pecheone
Marie Gryphon
Giving Students the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need

The report reviewed here concludes that competition and choice induce improved hiring practices and more flexible compensation policies, which in turn attract and retain high-quality teachers. The review finds that this conclusion lacks evidentiary support.

Suggested Citation:

Pecheone, R. and Vasudeva, A. (2006). Review of "Giving Students the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need."  Boulder and Tempe: Education and the Public Interest Center & Education Policy Research Unit. Retrieved [date] from http://epicpolicy.org/thinktank/review-giving-students-chaff-how-find-and-keep-teachers-we-need

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