The purpose of this study is to answer four research questions: ① How have the teacher
evaluation systems developed in the United States, England, and Japan? ② What are the current
operational conditions of the teacher evaluation systems in the United States, England, and Japan?
③ Toward what directions are the teacher evaluation systems developing in the United States,
England, and Japan? ④ What implications for the development of Korean teacher evaluation system
can be drawn from the analysis of teacher evaluation systems in the United States, England, and
Japan?
The major developmental trends of teacher evaluation systems in those three countries were
summarized in terms of seven points: ① the possibility of considering educational/individual
characteristics of teachers and teacher's teaching objectives in teacher evaluation, ② the possibility of
mutual communication between evaluators and teachers, ③ the possibility of direct/indirect
involvement of peer teachers, parents, and students in teacher evaluation, ④ the possibility of
considering students' achievement in teacher evaluation, ⑤ the diversity in teacher evaluation
methods, ⑥ the evaluation of school administrators as well as teachers, ⑦ the use of teacher
evaluation results.
Based on the analysis of teacher evaluation systems in the United States, England, and Japan,
following implications were drawn for the development of Korean teacher evaluation system. ① New
teacher evaluation system should be a teacher-based evaluation system, which consider teacher's
educational/individual characteristics and teacher's teaching objectives in evaluating teachers. ② New
teacher evaluation system should encourages mutual communication between evaluators and teachers
in evaluating teachers. ③ New teacher evaluation system can encourage direct/indirect involvement of
peer teachers, pare and students in evaluating teachers for more objective/comprehensive teacher
evaluation. ④ New teacher evaluation system can consider students' achievement in evaluating
teachers. ⑤ New teacher evaluation system should use both relative assessment and absolute
assessment. ⑥ New evaluation system should be established for school principals and vice-principal.
⑦ New evaluation system should encourage the use of teacher evaluation results for teachers'
professional development.