Section R. 380.21 - DefinitionsRule 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.Mich. Admin. Code R. 380.21
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