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4ª SESSÃO | ALFAIAS LITÚRGICAS INVENTÁRIO DE BENS CULTURAIS DA IGREJA 4 Abril 2016 | Acção de Formação É já na próxima 2ª feira, dia 4 de Abril, a 4ª sessão da Acção de Formação "Inventário de Bens Culturais da Igreja: análise, identificação e classificação". Dedicada ao tema "Alfaias Litúrgicas", os respectivos módulos (Ourivesaria e Paramentaria) serão leccionados por Luísa Penalva e Manuela Pinto da Costa. Iniciativa do Secretariado Nacional para os Bens Culturais da Igreja, no âmbito do Projecto Thesaurus, destina-se, prioritariamente, aos técnicos que, nas dioceses, têm por tarefa a elaboração do inventário das respectivas igrejas, mas também a todos aqueles que pretendam obter formação especializada neste domínio.

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continua a saga... 'humilhação' pública dos professores... pelos 'states'...! as opinões são [?] 'unânimes'...

"In its coverage, the august New York Times sent a mixed message. Its first headline said "Teacher Quality Widely Diffused, Ratings Indicate," which implied that the ratings actually measured teacher quality and meant something real and important. And indeed, the first three paragraphs stated that every corner of the city, from the poorest to the most affluent districts, had teachers who were the most and least successful.

But the fourth paragraph of the Times story revealed the statistical inadequacy of the measures: "... the margin of error is so wide that the average confidence interval around each rating spanned 35 percentiles in math and 53 in English, the city said. Some teachers were judged on as few as 10 students." With such a large margin of error, it's hard to know how anyone could take these ratings seriously. The precise numbers attached to each teacher's name are nothing more than junk science."

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Open publication - Free publishing - More education

avaliação de desempenho docente... públicas humilhações...? nada [e não deve 'tardar' muito] que não se vá ver por cá... tal o 'ódio' aos professores [e já agora ao funcionalismo público, em geral]...!

"New York newspapers just published the evaluation rankings of New York City teachers based on student test scores. A good deal of anger is being directed their way for publishing the results. Although I abhor what the newspapers are doing, much of the anger, I believe is misplaced. This was the inevitable conclusion of an evaluation system, created by folks who knew, or should have known, that the publication of such numbers was the most likely outcome. New York teachers and their principals should brace themselves because with the new state-wide evaluation system, this will probably be a yearly event. 

The publication of evaluation scores should not come as a surprise to anyone, including Bill Gates, because it is allowed by the law. It had already occurred in Los Angeles. One would hope that after the tragedy in Los Angeles, when a teacher took his own life, apparently due in part to despondence over the release of his score, our leaders would have paused in their crusade to reduced teachers to numbers. Sadly, this did not occur.

Public disclosure was one of the many reasons why principals opposed the creation of individual numbers for teachers based on test scores. We argued for a school-wide achievement goal instead. Although an achievement goal number based on scores could be publicly available, it would be a school score that all educators would work to achieve, not an individual score that would result in the humiliation of an individual educator. It is also why we suggested that the final evaluation not be a numerical score, which would be subject to public disclosure, as noted by Robert Freeman of the State Committee on Open Government. See here. Evaluation should be about educator improvement, not dismissal. If the dismissal of ineffective educators is a process that is too cumbersome, then we should reform dismissal laws."

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avaliação de desempenho [valor acrescentado] docente... disponibilização pública dos dados... só pelos 'states'...! por cá ficamos à espera desta 'transparência'...? se é que é de transparência que se trata...!

"It seems as though New York City newspapers are going to receive the value-added scores of the city’s public school teachers, and publish them in an online database, as was the case in Los Angeles.*

In my opinion, the publication will not only serve no useful purpose educationally, but it is also a grossly unfair infringement on the privacy of teachers. I have also argued previously that putting the estimates online may serve to bias future results by exacerbating the non-random assignment of students to teachers (parents requesting [or not requesting] specific teachers based on published ratings), though it’s worth noting that the city is now using a different model.

That said, I don’t think there’s any way to avoid publication, given that about a dozen newspapers will receive the data, and it’s unlikely that every one of them will decline to do so. So, in addition to expressing my firm opposition, I would offer what I consider to be an absolutely necessary suggestion: If newspapers are going to publish the estimates, they need to publish the error margins too."

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