Claim: Educator effectiveness (Finland provides annual feedback) has student achievement as a big part of teacher evaluations, other states require this and work samples.
Evidence: Some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden provide annual feedback on teaching practices. In 2013, 25 states required that student achievement is a big or the biggest part of teacher evaluations. Twenty-seven states required teacher evaluations be based on a variety of student assessments and work samples and 44 states required classroom observations to be put into teacher evaluations.