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Jing Liu; Julie Cohen – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
Valid and reliable measurements of teaching quality facilitate school-level decision-making and policies pertaining to teachers. Using nearly 1,000 word-to-word transcriptions of fourth- and fifth-grade English language arts classes, we apply novel text-as-data methods to develop automated measures of teaching to complement classroom observations…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Language Arts, Elementary School Teachers
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Grigg, Jeffrey; Kelly, Kimberle A.; Gamoran, Adam; Borman, Geoffrey D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013
In this article, we examine classroom observations from a 3-year large-scale randomized trial in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to investigate the extent to which a professional development initiative in inquiry science influenced teaching practices in in 4th and 5th grade classrooms in 73 schools. During the course of the study,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Inquiry, Professional Development, Grade 4