Sentences with phrase «predict teaching effectiveness»

No research evidence indicates that these tests, nor the recently imposed GRE requirement for admission to master's - level preparation programs, strongly predict teaching effectiveness or quality.

Not exact matches

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

We identify a number of background characteristics (e.g., undergraduate GPA) as well as screening measures (e.g., applicant performance on a mock teaching lesson) that strongly predict teacher effectiveness.

We find that observation measures of teaching effectiveness are substantively related to student achievement growth and that some observed teaching practices predict achievement more than other practices.

Since the «highly qualified» status is now replaced with effectiveness, I predict some leeway in certification requirements and alternative pathways to teaching made easier at the state level.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, predicted fairly accurately how much high - performing teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched three years ago.