According to a report by the American National School Boards Association Center for Public Education (2013), what are some of the trends in teacher evaluation?

1. Stakeholders (including teachers) need to be involved in providing input for the design of evaluation systems. 2. Teachers are evaluated on multiple measures. In addition to test scores and classroom observations, these evaluations may include measures such as student and parent surveys, examinations of lesson plans, teacher self-assessments, student artifacts, and teacher portfolio. 3. Student test-scores are naturally very important to teacher evaluation. 4. Classroom observations are a necessary component to teacher evaluation. The goal is to use well-trained observers to ensure that teachers being evaluated received similar scores regardless of who conducts the observations, and observation instruments are supposed to be based on practices most likely to increase student learning. 5. While most evaluations are done with the purpose of raising teacher performance, some are done to inform personnel decisions, such as teacher retention and salary increases.