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Paul T. von Hippel; Laura Bellows – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
At least sixteen US states have taken steps toward holding teacher preparation programs (TPPs) accountable for teacher value-added to student test scores. Yet it is unclear whether teacher quality differences between TPPs are large enough to make an accountability system worthwhile. Several statistical practices can make differences between TPPs…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Scores, Accountability
Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric; Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2012
We compare teacher preparation programs in Missouri based on the effectiveness of their graduates in the classroom. The differences in effectiveness between teachers from different preparation programs are very small. In fact, virtually all of the variation in teacher effectiveness comes from within-program differences between teachers. Prior…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Comparative Analysis