Quality Matters Conference on Accountability In Educational Preparation

1. Quality Matters Conference on Accountability In Educational Preparation Wisconsin Institutions of Higher Education November 2, 2006

2. Quality Matters Evidence and Assessment: Building and Using a Sustainable Knowledge Base Edward Crowe Senior Consultant Carnegie Corporation of New York/ Academy for Educational Development

3. National Research Council Study on Teacher Preparation in the United States Authorized by Congress Conducted by the Center For Education (CFE) Led by appointed Committee on Teacher Preparation www7.nationalacademies.org/teacherprep

4. NRC Study Question 1 Who enters teacher preparation programs (pre-service, graduate, and alternative)? • What is their academic preparation? • What is their educational background?

5. NRC Study Question 2 What type of instruction and experiences do participants receive in the preparation program? • Who delivers it? • To what extent is there commonality in content and experiences?

6. NRC Study Question 3 To what extent is the required course work and experiences in reading and mathematics across teacher preparation programs consistent with converging scientific evidence?

7. NRC Study Question 4 What model for data collection would provide valid and reliable information about: • The content knowledge, • Pedagogical competence, and • Effectiveness of graduates from the various kinds of teacher preparation programs

8. Key questions for teacher preparation Entering Students What do students bring to the program (student characteristics predictive of success)?

9. Key questions for teacher preparation Preparing New Teachers What’s the treatment (the program) and what are its effects on candidate knowledge, skills and performance?

10. Key questions for teacher preparation Program Outcomes What’s the impact of the preparation program on: • Teaching performance • Persistence in the profession • P-12 student achievement

11. Key questions for teacher preparation OR… • What do they know? • What can they do? • What are their pupils learning?

12. Survey of Initiatives • Studies of teacher education programs • “Teacher effects” • Pathways into teaching • Classroom observation and achievement • Large-scale data bases • Lessons learned

13. Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership Public and Private Preparation Programs • Who enters • How are they prepared • Impact on knowledge, skills, and beliefs • Teaching performance • Pupil learning www.tqpohio.org

14. Texas Schools Project “The Market for Teacher Quality” (2005) “Why Public Schools Lose Teachers” (2004) “Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement” (2005) CALDER: Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research www.utdallas.edu/research/tsp/Index.htm

15. North CarolinaEducation Data Center • Cooperative agreement • Studies on National Board teachers • Analyses of schools, teachers, pupils and closing the achievement gap www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/child/index.html

16. Teachers for a New Era Carnegie Corporation of New York Annenberg and Ford Foundations Academy for Educational Development www.teachersforanewera.org

17. TNE: Decisions based on evidence Key design principle: Decisions based on evidence • Program designs based on research • Assessments linking preparation to teaching performance • Assessments of teacher impact on pupil learning

18. California State University System Center for Teacher Quality • Three Year Evaluation of CSU Teacher Preparation • Study of Elementary Subject Matter Programs • Pilot Evaluation of CSU Subject Matter Preparation • Teacher Preparation and K-12 Student Academic Achievement www.calstate.edu/Teacheredeval/

19. Louisiana Board of Regents Teacher Education Initiatives • Blue Ribbon Commission • PK-16+ Partnerships • Redesign of Teacher Preparation Programs • Teacher Preparation Accountability System • Value-added Assessment Model http://asa.regents.state.la.us/TE

20. Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) University of Virginia • Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) • MyTeachingPartner (MTP) • Social and Academic Learning Study • Interdisciplinary Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowships in Education Sciences www.virginia.edu/vprgs/CASTL/index.php

21. Does the Pathway Make a Difference? • Which teachers are most effective in improving student outcomes? • What characterizes their preparation, pathways into teaching and qualifications to teach? • What is the cost effectiveness of various pathways into teaching? www.teacherpolicyresearch.org

22. Issues and Challenges • Thin research base to draw on (AERA Report) • Quality of outcomes measures • Licensure tests • Measures of teaching performance (observations) • Standardized tests for pupils

23. Issues and Challenges • Defining a pathway • Capacity and will of the profession • Data systems--institutions, districts, states

24. Policy Context • No Child Left Behind • Growth Models of K-12 learning • Standards, accreditation and state program approval: Floors or ceilings?

25. Policy Context Spellings Commission on Higher Education • Outcomes assessment • The future of accreditation • Teacher education--missing link? Highly Qualified Teachers? Who says?

26. Needed for success? The Will AND The Capacity

27. If not now… When?

28. If not us… Who?

29. Quality that matters: Evidence of teaching and learning outcomes “Society reaps at this moment but a small fraction of the advantage which current knowledge has the power to confer.” Abraham Flexner (1910) [Bulletin No. 4, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]