Houston ISD's EVAAS Teacher-Evaluation System Reportedly Put Teachers' Jobs at Risk Through Unverifiable Scores
Description
From 2011 to 2015, Houston Independent School District used SAS Institute’s Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) to rate teacher effectiveness from student test-score growth. Teachers alleged that proprietary, unverifiable EVAAS scores contributed to terminations and contract nonrenewals. On May 4, 2017, a federal judge allowed due-process claims over the system to proceed.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- houston-independent-school-district
Alleged Developers
- sas-institute
Harmed Parties
- teachers
- houston-independent-school-district-teachers
- educators
- educational-communities
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.4. Lack of transparency or interpretability
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