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73.023 - Toward a Fair Evaluation of Teachers: Methodological Challenges in a Cross-National Study of Mathematics Teachers

Mon, April 20, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Marriott, Floor: Sixth Level, Purdue/Wisconsin

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Evaluating teachers according to pupils’ achievement is becoming standard practice across the world. This practice has raised concerns among the education research community primarily because it ignores the conditioning influence of the school context on teacher performance. This transformation on how we value the work of teachers is occurring at a time when new recruits increasingly come from different routes and bring into teaching a wide variation in their knowledge and skills. This symposium presents the methodological challenges in designing a research study to explore novice teachers’ effectiveness when teaching mathematics in high stakes environments across fifteen countries. The discussion addresses alternatives to the current simplistic value added models and the development of a research foundation for evidence-based professional development.

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