Because Georgia developed the Teacher Keys Effectiveness System (TKES) to provide teachers with more

meaningful feedback and support so they can achieve the goal of increasing academic learning and achievement for
all students (Georgia Department of Education, 2016, p. 3), evaluation questions should address feedback, support,
and student achievement.

Question
How effective is the TKES
at providing meaningful
feedback to teachers?

To what extent is the use

of the TKES evaluation
program increasing
teacher collaboration?
How effective is the TKES
in increasing student
achievement?

Data Sources
Source 1: Evaluations (number of teachers receiving all
evaluations)
Source 2: Evaluation comments (comments different from the
copied standards descriptors; comments that actually give
suggestions for teaching)
Source 3: Teacher questionnaire
Source 1: Professional learning communities (PLC): number,
inception as a result of TKES
Source 2: Teacher questionnaire
Source 3: Administrator questionnaire
Source 4: PLC coordinator questionnaire
Source 1: Formative assessments, Benchmarks/SLOs
Source 2: Summative assessments, EOCs/Milestones
Source 3: Student questionnaire

Participants
Teachers

Teachers
Administrators
PLC coordinators

Students
(performance
data)

Reference
Georgia Department of Education (2016). Georgias Teacher Keys Effectiveness System.
Retrieved from http://www.gadoe.org/School-Improvement/Teacher-and-LeaderEffectiveness/Documents/Finalized%20TKES%20Handbook%20with%20district%20feedback
%20%202016-2017.pdf