National Center for Teacher Effectiveness
Page
Learn what the National Center for Teacher Effectiveness identified as valid measures to evaluate math instruction.
Search
Sort & Filters
Filters
433 results for "Teacher Effectiveness"
433 results for "Teacher Effectiveness"
Who is an Effective Teacher?
News
CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane discusses the minimum standard of effectiveness for teachers in the following Brookings Institution paper. As states and districts implement new teacher evaluation systems, they will struggle to differentiate between...
Teacher Professional Learning and Effectiveness System (TPLES): Process and Guidelines
Resource
This resource maps out the TPLES process, showing how reflection, observation, and conferences guide teacher growth and effectiveness across the school year.
Teacher Effectiveness Linked to Student Achievement
News
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...
The Effects of Teacher-Student Demographic Matching on Social-Emotional Learning
Resource
These findings add to the emerging teacher diversity literature by showing its benefits for Black and female students during a critical stage of development.
Report Finds That Practice-Based Teacher Evaluations can be Valuable Tool in Assessing Teacher Effectiveness
News
New study shows teachers’ ratings on TNTP’s Performance Assessment System (PAS) are linked to student achievement. The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University today releases a new report examining how reliably a portfolio system...
Report Finds That Practice-Based Teacher Evaluations Can Be Valuable Tool in Assessing Teacher Effectiveness
News
The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University today releases a new report examining how reliably a portfolio system can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of early-career teachers. The report, “Are Practice-Based Teacher...
Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?
Resource
Research on the relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher effectiveness has been underway for over a century, yet little progress has been made in linking teacher quality with factors observable at the time of hire. To extend this...
Explaining Teacher Effects on Achievement Using Measures from Multiple Research Traditions
Resource
Researchers have identified many characteristics of teachers and teaching that contribute to student outcomes. However, most studies investigate only a small number of these characteristics, likely underestimating the overall contribution. In this paper...
Do Value-Added Estimates Identify Causal Effects of Teachers and Schools?
News
In 25 years as an education researcher, I have never witnessed a rapid outpouring of new research in education such as we’ve seen in recent years. In what may be the most important byproduct of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Institute of Education...
The Effect of Evaluation on Performance: Evidence From Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-Career Teachers
Resource
The effect of evaluation on employee performance is traditionally studied in the context of the principal-agent problem. Evaluation can, however, also be characterized as an investment in the evaluated employee’s human capital. We study a sample of mid...