CEPR Faculty Director Tom Kane recently led the Measures of Effective Teaching project, a $52 million study sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In January 2013, the project published three new reports. The teachers who were identified as more effective during the first year of the project—using student achievement gains, classroom observations, and student surveys—produced greater student achievement following random assignment. This is the first large-scale study to demonstrate that it is possible to use teacher evaluations to identify great teachers. The three-year study also found that teacher evaluations which combine student achievement gains, classroom observations, and student evaluations, provided the best combination of predictive power and reliability.
MET Project Reports:
This non-technical research brief for policymakers and practitioners summarizes recent analyses from the MET project on identifying effective teaching while accounting for differences among teachers’ students, on combining measures into composites, and on assuring reliable classroom observations.
Download Full Report
Have We Identified Effective Teachers? Validating Measures of Effective Teaching Using Random Assignment
This report presents an in-depth discussion of the technical methods,findings, and implications of the MET project’s random assignment study of teaching effectiveness measures.
Download Full Report
The Reality of Classroom Observations by School Personnel
This report presents an in-depth discussion of the technical methods,results, and implications of the MET project’s study of video-based classroom observations by school personnel.
Download Full Report
This report presents an in-depth discussion of statistical modeling and estimating the parameters of an optimal combined measure of teacher effectiveness using data from the MET project.
Download Full Report
For a complete list of MET project reports, see: http://www.metproject.org/reports.php
Media Coverage: