An Evaluation of The Math for All Professional Learning Program: A report on teacher Outcomes

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Abstract

Elementary school teachers have reported in national surveys a need to be better prepared to teach math; a point that helps explain ongoing concerns about math learning in the U.S. Math for All (MFA) is a teacher professional learning (PL) program that has been evaluated previously to learn about its impacts on teacher and student outcomes. It has also been designed to follow best practices in PL design. This paper will describe a new quasi-experiment that was destabilized by the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, school building closures undermined implementation. Nevertheless, this independent evaluation shows compelling impacts the PL had on elementary school teachers’ self-reported sense of comfort and preparedness when delivering math instruction to diverse learners and students with disabilities.

Authors

• Babette Moeller, Education Development Center, Inc.

• John H. Hitchcock, Westat

• Jason Schoeneberger, ICF International

• Teresa Garcia Duncan, Deacon Hill Research Associates LLC