BiasMedium
Algorithmic Teacher Evaluation Program Reportedly Failed to Improve Student Outcomes and Was Alleged to Have Harmed Teachers
- Occurred
- Sep 1, 2009
- Published
- Jun 27, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Gates Foundation-funded Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Initiative's algorithmic program to assess teacher performance reportedly failed to achieve its goals for student outcomes, particularly for minority students, and was criticized for potentially causing harm against teachers.
Developers
- Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching
Deployers
- Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching
Harmed parties
- Teachers
- Students
- Minority students
- Minority groups
- Epistemic integrity
- Educational communities
- Economically vulnerable students
- Economically vulnerable people
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic teacher evaluation program failed student outcomes and allegedly caused harm against teachers, particularly minority students.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8