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In this article, the authors explicate a conceptual framework for analyzing the politics of personnel evaluation in an educational context. Using several elements of their framework, they discuss the politics of teacher evaluation in California in relation to the types of personnel evaluation decisions, the actors, their access to these decisions, their sources and level of power, and the outcomes related to their decisions. The authors further portray how politics enters into personnel evaluation at the district level by describing an actual case.
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Bridges, E.M., Groves, B.R. The Macro- and Micropolitics of Personnel Evaluation: A Framework. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 13, 321–337 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008182215705
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