Classroom Observation SIG Business Meeting: Innovating Methods to Transform Teaching Through Formative Use of Classroom Observation

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

Classroom observation systems are widely used in US public education for the purpose of providing direct information on teaching in order to change or improve it. During our SIG Business Meeting, we will discuss who we are as a classroom observation SIG and the future of the SIG with an emphasis on transforming teaching and learning, especially in marginalized communities. We will discuss formative interpretations and uses of information from observation measures must be central (rather than an afterthought) to their conception, development, appraisal, and dissemination. Our Business Meeting brings together researchers and educators with varied expertise and a common commitment to develop and validate observation systems that support teachers and generate instructional change.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Classroom Observation

Chair

• Elizabeth L. Adams, American Institutes for Research

Participants

• Julie Jackson Cohen, University of Virginia

• Marie Ellen Cushing, University of Virginia

• Drew H. Gitomer, Rutgers University

• Laura S. Hamilton, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, Inc.

• Jane W. Kim, University of California - Los Angeles

• Jose-Felipe Martinez, University of California - Los Angeles

• Imelda Nava-Landeros, University of California - Los Angeles

• Margarita Olivera Aguilar, American Institutes for Research

• Taylor Topham, Northwestern University

• Bryant Jensen, Brigham Young University

• Xiaohang Zhang, Brigham Young University

Officers

• Cindy L. Guerrero, Texas A&M University

• Rebecca O'Brien, Whitworth University