As findings from the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project show, coaching done poorly can actually make things worse.
We assume a correlation of.40 based on the results of math value - added scores in the Measurement of
Effective Teaching Project (2012) and consistent with the data in Figure 1.
Gathering Feedback for Teaching, Measures of
Effective Teaching Project: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of
Effective Teaching project found that «student survey results are predictive of student achievement.»
Review of «Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project.
The report released last month was called «Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project,» by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation officials Thomas J. Kane and Steven Cantrell.
The chapter titled, «How Framework for Teaching and Tripod 7Cs Evidence Distinguish Key Components of Effective Teaching,» was recently published in a book all about the MET studies, titled «Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems: New Guidance from the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project» written by Thomas Kane, Kerri Kerr, and Robert Pianta.
The report, entitled «Learning About Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project,» reportedly gives the strongest evidence to date of the validity of the value - added model as a tool to measure teacher effectiveness.
Through our work with a group of school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs)-- all part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Leading for
Effective Teaching project (LET)-- we have learned a lot about what it looks like to provide these three essentials for principals on a systemwide basis.
The meeting, part of the Leading for
Effective Teaching Project that CEL is leading with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, included participants from 13 districts and charter management organizations (see box).
Learning about teaching: Initial findings from the Measures of
Effective Teaching project.
Check out the infographic below and learn what our survey of 195 central office leaders from six school systems (all participating in the Leading for
Effective Teaching Project) can tell us about the current trends in the central office - principal relationship.
The foundation has also drawn to a close its multi-year Measures of
Effective Teaching project that among other things encouraged linking teacher evaluations to student performance, including test scores.
Review of «Learning about teaching: Initial findings from the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project.
As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of
Effective Teaching project.
Seattle, WA: Measures of
Effective Teaching Project, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Designing teacher evaluation systems: New guidance from the Measures of
Effective Teaching project (pp. 278 - 302).
This method of evaluation aligns with cutting - edge Gates Foundation research, led by Harvard economist Tom Kane, called the Measures of
Effective Teaching project.
Hill, Ball and Brian Rowan find only modest links between measures of the mathematical knowledge that teachers need for teaching and their students» performance on standardized math tests, and the vaunted Measures of
Effective Teaching project had to abandon its content knowledge for teaching measures, designed to assess some aspects of pedagogical content knowledge, as they were not associated with student achievement.
A recent study by the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project found a strong correlation between student survey results and student progress.
The research, by Brian Kisida and Anna Egalite, relies on Tripod surveys and other data from the Measures of
Effective Teaching project to examine the impact of having demographically similar teachers on a wide range of students» academic perceptions and attitudes.
«The Measures of
Effective Teaching project will examine the work of 3,700 teachers from across the country, using videotapes, surveys, and student assessments to figure out what works and what doesn't.»
Utilizing data from the Measures for
Effective Teaching project, we propose to test the impacts of ability grouping on observed teaching practice and student achievement gains.
Misunderstanding the Gates Foundation's Measures of
Effective Teaching Project Education Next, January 10, 2013 «MET argues for a more balanced set of weights among value added, classroom observations, and feedback from student surveys on other grounds.
Learning about teaching: Initial findings from the measures of
effective teaching project.
He was formerly deputy director within the U.S. education group at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led the Measures of
Effective Teaching project.
• In the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project, students were surveyed about many dimensions of the instruction they received and these were correlated with their teachers» value - added estimates.
After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.
IMPACT's features are broadly consistent with emerging best - practice design principles informed by the Measures of
Effective Teaching project, and are intended to drive improvements in teacher quality and student achievement (see «Capturing the Dimensions of Effective Teaching,» features, Fall 2012).
For instance, in the Measures of
Effective Teaching project, we learned that even with trained raters, a single observation of a single lesson is an unreliable measure of a teacher's practice.
Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of
Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.
Not exact matches
But the Web is especially well - suited to
teaching technical topics,
effective sales and customer - service techniques, financial skills, product and policy updates, and things that can be learned step by step, such as drafting a business plan or managing a
project.
Even though I did not receive
teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they
taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite
effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the
project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.
English does serve as a kind of de facto lingua franca in a number of international settings, but it is not, from what I have read,
taught universally in South America, many African countries, or in parts of Asia, at least not at an early age for
effective language acquisition (and I am unaware of any evidence that English is
projected to take over in a reasonable period of time on its own; I have read that in Southeast Asia, for example, emphasis may even be shifting to Chinese).
Recentanalysis by the Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.
Recent analysis by the Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.
Real research, real attention,
effective teaching: Implicit in many of these
projects — but explicit in Ares's plan — is the notion that the division between research and
teaching is artificial.
«Our pilot study shows that using game - based learning is an
effective, cost - efficient way to
teach refugee children important skills — and importantly, this structured environment provided distressed refugee children an outlet to imagine a better future for themselves,» said Sinem Vatanartiran, president of BAU International University and a
Project Hope investigator.
The share awarded to value - added was the largest of any evaluation system in the nation, and at the top end of what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
Project research had recommended.
Ensuring fair and reliable measures of
effective teaching: Culminating findings from the MET
project's three - year study.
This form of instructional
teaching is highly
effective and still has its place in the classroom, so schools that have invested in visualisers should still make use of them, as they can
project images without the need for photographing or converting them for use on the display.
It wasn't until I discovered the
project - based learning (PBL)
teaching model that I encountered the instructional vehicle to deliver
effective, differentiated instruction that met both my
teaching philosophy and the learning needs of the students.
These
projects have practically proven that the TD approach of
teaching and learning is possible and
effective in a real school.
My good friend Jay Greene is back this week with yet another assault on the Gates Foundation and its Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project, the final results of which appeared on Tuesday.
In the largest study of instructional practice ever undertaken, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
project is searching for tools to save the world from perfunctory teacher evaluations.
BIE is dedicated to improving 21st - century
teaching and learning throughout the world by creating and disseminating products, practices, and knowledge for
effective project - based learning.
The
projects range from training and developing
effective teaching strategies, to additional support for underachieving pupils.
The «Research Schools»
project is a partnership between the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Institute for
Effective Education (IEE) and aims to fund a network of schools who will support the use of evidence to improve
teaching practice.
According to its website, the Measures of
Effective Teaching (MET)
Project is «designed to find out the best way to give teachers the information and support they want.»
He recently partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the «Measures of
Effective Teaching» (or MET)
project, which was intended to develop metrics capable of determining which teachers are faring better than others, and to determine what factors help determine success.