Evaluating Teacher Preparation Using Graduates’ Observational Ratings

Measuring Up: The National Council on Teacher Quality’s Ratings of Teacher Preparation Programs and Measures of Teacher Performance

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) regularly prepares reports rating teacher preparation programs (TPPs) across the United States on a set of input and process-based standards. The purpose of the research described in this brief is to use data drawn from North Carolina to examine the associations between the NCTQ ratings of TPPs and two measures of teacher performance—teacher value-...

The Sensitivity of Teacher Performance Ratings

Recent policy reforms have dramatically changed how educators are evaluated. To better differentiate teacher effectiveness, newly implemented teacher evaluation systems incorporate multiple teacher performance measures and performance rating categories. Yet, little evidence exists on the consequences of these system design features for the distribution of teacher effectiveness. Using data from ...

Personality Development during Teacher Preparation

Objective: The purpose of this 3-year longitudinal study was to examine pre-service teachers' personality trajectories as measured by the IPIP Big-Five factor markers during teacher preparation. The relationship between students' personality traits, social desirability, and prior academic attainment was also examined. Method: This 3-year longitudinal study invited participants from the first ye...

Using Value Added Models to Evaluate Teacher Preparation Programs

Are Teacher Ratings and Parent Ratings Differently Associated with Children's Intelligence and Cognitive Performance?

OBJECTIVE The present study investigated whether teacher ratings and parent ratings of inattentive or hyperactive/impulsive symptoms were differently associated with intelligence or cognitive performance in Korean children. METHODS Six hundred sixty-seven children were recruited from nine schools in five Korean cities. The teachers and parents of 580 of these children (9.0±0.7 years old, 333 ...