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Bitler, Marianne; Corcoran, Sean; Domina, Thurston; Penner, Emily – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Estimates of teacher "value-added" suggest teachers vary substantially in their ability to promote student learning. Prompted by this finding, many states and school districts have adopted value-added measures as indicators of teacher job performance. In this paper, we conduct a new test of the validity of value-added models. Using…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Value Added Models, Validity
Laura Holian; Catharine Warner-Griffin – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to understand how a school-based personalized learning approach can help improve literacy achievement among middle grades students in a rural area. This study followed two cohorts of schools serving students in grades 6-8 in northeast Tennessee for one year each (2018-19 and 2021-22), to assess student and school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Seth B. Hunter; Matthew P. Steinberg – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Districts nationwide have increased the frequency of teacher evaluations. Yet, we know little about the role of evaluator feedback for teacher improvement. Using unique classroom observation-level data, we use evaluator ratings and teacher self-assessments of teacher performance to rigorously examine (positive and negative) feedback valence from…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Feedback (Response), Teacher Improvement
Huguet, Alice; Holtzman, Deborah J.; Robyn, Abby; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Todd, Ivy; Choi, Linda; Baird, Matthew D.; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Garet, Michael S.; Stecher, Brian M.; Engberg, John – RAND Corporation, 2020
In 2018, The RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research (AIR) published an evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching (IP) initiative, which was designed to improve achievement among low-income minority (LIM) students. The initiative provided support for several reforms that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Improvement, Educational Change
Bruno, Paul; Rabovsky, Sarah; Strunk, Katharine – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2019
Novice teachers' professional contexts may have important implications for their effectiveness, development, and retention. However, descriptions of these contexts suffer from data limitations, resulting in unidimensional or vague characterizations. Using 10 years of administrative data from the Los Angeles Unified School District, we describe…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Distribution, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Load
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Ford, Timothy G.; Van Sickle, Mary Elizabeth; Clark, Lynn V.; Fazio-Brunson, Michelle; Schween, Dorothy C. – Educational Policy, 2017
Currently, a significant number of states are in the process of implementing a high-stakes teacher evaluation (HSTE) system. In many ways, Louisiana's teacher evaluation system, "Compass," is typical of the models that many states have adopted. This article reports the experiences of 37 elementary teachers from five districts across…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation, Longitudinal Studies