Improving teaching effectiveness : implementation : the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching through 2013-2014 / Brian M. Stecher [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stecher, Brian M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teacher effectiveness--United States.

Teacher effectiveness.

Education--Research--United States.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation : American Institutes for Research, 2016.

Summary:

To improve the U.S.education system through more-effective classroom teaching, in school year 2009-2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Contents

Figures and Tables

Summary

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

The Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching: Improving Outcomes for Low-Income and Minority Students

Launching the Intensive Partnership Initiative

Introduction to the Intensive Partnership Sites

The College-Ready Promise

Approach to Evaluating Intensive Partnership Reform Implementation

Limitations of This Study

Overall Expenditures on the Intensive Partnership Initiative

Organization of the Report

CHAPTER TWO: Teacher Evaluation

Teacher-Evaluation Lever Implementation

Distributions of Teaching-Effectiveness Ratings

Teacher and School-Leader Perspectives on Teacher Evaluation

Perceptions of the Fairness and Accuracy of the Evaluation Results

Cost of Teacher Evaluation

CHAPTER THREE: Staffing

Staffing Lever Implementation

Teacher and School-Leader Perspectives on the Staffing Lever

CHAPTER FOUR: Professional Development

Professional-Development Lever Implementation

Teacher and School-Leader Perspectives on the Professional-Development Lever

CHAPTER FIVE: Compensation and Career Ladders

Compensation and Career-Ladder Lever Implementation

Teacher and School-Leader Perspectives on the Compensation and Career-Ladder Lever

CHAPTER SIX: Summary and Conclusions

Discussion

Future Analyses

APPENDIXES

A. Methods for Interview Data Collection and Analysis

B. Methods for Coding Implementation Status

C. Methods for Survey Data Collection and Analysis

References.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 4, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8330-9213-8

OCLC:

967523253