Mich. Admin. Code R. 380.21 - Definitions
Rule 1. As used in these rules:
(a) "Act" means the revised school code, 1976
PA 451, MCL
380.1 to
380.1852.
(b) "Department" means the department of
education.
(c) "District" means a
school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy as
defined in the act.
(d) "Educator"
means a teacher or school administrator whose performance is evaluated as
required by the act.
(e) "Efficacy"
means the extent to which an evaluation tool provides information that improves
professional practice.
(f)
"Evaluation tool" means a written instrument used to assess the performance of
educators as required by the act.
(g) "List" means the compilation of
evaluation tools by the department as required by the act and maintained on the
department's website.
(h)
"Reliability" means the extent to which an evaluation tool is consistent and
stable in yielding similar results under varying conditions, including, but not
limited to, different evaluators and observers or different observation
windows.
(i) "Scoring guide" means
the scoring instrument developed by the department and reviewed by the
department's technical advisory committee before initial implementation and
subsequent modification that is available on the department's website and that
defines the minimum requirements for placement of an evaluation tool on the
list using the following criteria: research base, qualifications of the author
or authors, reliability, validity, and efficacy.
(j) "Validity" means the extent to which an
evaluation tool measures what it is intended to measure.
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