Measures of Effective Teaching Project

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

We propose this symposium as a forum to provide the first public presentation of the full dataset from the Measures of Effective Teaching project. These measures are sorely needed, especially within a policy and reform environment that has increasingly emphasized human capital management improvements. The teams have developed and combined measures of effective teaching, including digital video recordings of classroom instruction, tests of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, student perception surveys, and student performance scores on both a state and a supplemental assessment. The first year of data collection was conducted in approximately 3,000 elementary and secondary school classrooms. The second year of data collection included a feature to allow strong tests of these measures: teachers were assigned classes by lottery.

Sub Unit

• Division H - Research, Evaluation and Assessment in Schools / Section 4: Accountability in the Schools

Chairs

• Steven M. Cantrell, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Thomas Kane, Harvard University

Papers

• Value-Added Working Group - Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College

• Teacher Knowledge Working Group - Geoffrey C. Phelps, Educational Testing Service; Drew H. Gitomer, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

• Student Perceptions Working Group - Ronald F. Ferguson, Harvard University

• Video-Scoring Working Group - Catherine A. McClellan, Clowder Consulting

• Building a Composite Measure of Effective Teaching - Daniel McCaffrey, RAND Corporation