What SETS Can Do For You:  Central Office Administrators
 

SETS is customized for your specific needs

SETS comes customized with your district's own performance standards and rating scales pre-loaded and ready to go.  It can be used for teachers, other professional staff (such as guidance advisors), as well as classified staff evaluation.  When you use SETS, all your evaluation information for your entire district can be managed and organized in a single database. 


SETS helps you know how to evaluate

SETS embodies the best practices in the field. These include:

• Use of multiple data sources (such as formal and informal evaluations, portfolios, interviews, goal setting, etc.);
• Cumulative documentation of data collected from these multiple sources;
• Regular, systematic feedback to the staff person as the data is collected, highlighting areas of performance where additional information is needed;
• Summative evaluation of all data as a separate step from data collection, using detailed performance indicators and rating rubrics;
• Academic goal-setting designed to directly enhance student learning by connecting teacher work with student progress.

SETS consolidates evaluation information

SETS automatically consolidates evaluation information from all of your schools into a single database. When supervisors have finished an evaluation, it is electronically submitted to the central database for storage and review.   Any evaluation can be instantly retrieved for a variety of purposes.  Of course, SETS has built in security to limit access to information to those in your school district with appropriate privileges.
 

SETS gives you query and reporting tools

SETS gives you query and reporting tools for summarizing evaluation data and identifying key trends.   Although SETS can present information in document formats, it actually stores it in a relational database amenable to queries based on specific sections and fields.  Once the information is in the database, it can easily be used and reused to answer a variety of questions, including:

• What evaluation tasks have been done, and which need to be done, within a given school or across an entire district;
• Whether evaluators are using the rating scales consistently or whether there is "grade inflation" in the work of certain evaluators;
• District-wide analysis of staff strengths and weaknesses to inform staff development and identify teacher leaders;
• Item-analysis of the evaluation items and rating rubrics themselves to improve both the design and implementation of your staff evaluation procedures.
   

SETS is easy to install and support

SETS comes with personalized, long-term support to ensure that it continues to meet your needs over time.  A critical issue for any software tool is whether it can grow and evolve to meet future needs. We have a proven track record of supporting software over the long run.  SETS has minimal computer hardware and technical support requirements. SETS is designed to run basic Windows computers, even those that are several years old.   SETS is designed to run on common local area networks.  It can be deployed across a wide area network (entire district) using one of several strategies we can discuss with you.