Understanding Secondary Science Teaching Effectiveness: Examining the Relationship Between Teachers' Instructional Practices and Value-Added Scores

• In Event: 63.085 - Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: 63.085-3 - Examining Teaching Practices Across the Content Areas

Abstract

Recent efforts to improve schools have focused on developing valid and reliable teacher evaluation systems using a compilation of measures including both value-added measures and observation measures as critical components. Yet, the relationship between these two commonly used measures of teaching effectiveness has been under explored in the literature. This study is designed to do so by examining how secondary biology teachers use general and subject-specific instructional practices in their classrooms, and how these practices relate to teachers’ value-added measures. Results will contribute to two key areas of pressing educational significance: policy conversations regarding the alignment between value-added and observational measures of teaching effectiveness and teacher education discussions concerning effective instructional practices in science classrooms.

Authors

• Jamie N. Mikeska, Educational Testing Service

• Nancy Duchesneau, Michigan State University

• Tamara Shattuck, Michigan State University

• Yi Qi, Educational Testing Service

• Leslie Stickler, ETS

• Steven L. Holtzman, ETS

• David Kirui

• Daniel F. McCaffrey, ETS