Understanding How to Improve Teacher Quality and Equity Through International Comparative Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The session considers issues related to improving teacher quality and narrowing gaps in teacher quality distribution between schools in international contexts, drawing on studies conducted by the OECD Thomas J. Alexander Fellows. The session includes four papers that use OECD data.
Two papers investigate issues related to improve teacher quality across countries; one examines teachers’ working conditions that can make teaching an attractive career choice among high school students and the second examines school conditions associated with effective professional development in improving in-service teachers’ knowledge and skills. Two papers consider the teacher equity problem; one paper examines inequitable distribution of teacher support activities in international contexts while the other examines distribution of teacher quality in England.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Pablo Zoido, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Papers

• High School Students Who Want to Be Teachers: The Role of Teacher Pay and Working Conditions in a Comparative Perspective - Seong Won Han, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Francesca Borgonovi; Sonia Guerriero, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

• School Conditions and Teacher Participation in "Effective Professional Development": Results From Teaching and Learning International Survey 2013 - V. Darleen Opfer, RAND Education

• Equity in Access to Teacher Professionalism - William C Smith, RESULTS Educational Fund

• The Distribution of Teacher "Quality" Across Schools: Evidence From the National Teaching and Learning International Survey Report for England - John Jerrim, Institute of Education - University of London