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Classroom Observation SIG Business Meeting: Envisioning the Next Generation of Classroom Observation Research

Fri, April 25, 7:00 to 8:30pm MDT (7:00 to 8:30pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2E

Session Type: Business Meeting

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In this business meeting of the AERA Classroom Observation SIG, we organize a discussion about the next generation of research—with the goal of improving teaching and learning across various contexts. Whereas improvement has been a longstanding goal, classroom observation research over the past generation has focused largely on policy-minded, quantitative studies intended to link qualities of teaching with student achievement outcomes. Coinciding with accountability movements, these studies, in many cases, were associated with efforts to hire, promote, or dismiss teachers on the basis of their performance on standardized measures of teaching effectiveness. After these studies and associated efforts “failed to produce the desired dramatic improvement in outcomes” (Stecher et al., 2018, p. xxvi), as a field we wonder what the next generation of classroom observation research could or should look like to accomplish our noble aims.

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