Teacher Quality: Reading and Writing Research
IES is currently accepting applications for this research program. For your convenience, you may download the full FY 2009 Education Research RFA below.
Download the full 84.305A Education Research RFA
Download, view, & print as a PDF (586 KB)
Note: FY 2009 applicants that include subawards for work conducted at collaborating institutions should use this template to provide subaward budget information.
Download, view & print the form as an Excel file (164 KB).
Description of Research Program
The general purpose of the Institute's Teacher Quality — Reading and Writing research program is to identify effective strategies for improving the performance of current classroom teachers in ways that increase student learning and school achievement. The Institute intends for the Teacher Quality research program to fulfill five goals: (1) identifying the characteristics or practices of teachers that are associated with better student outcomes in reading or writing in kindergarten through Grade 12; and identifying programs and practices for teacher professional development that are associated with better student outcomes in reading or writing from kindergarten through Grade 12, as well as mediators and moderators of the relations between student outcomes and these teacher characteristics, programs, or practices; (2) developing new programs and practices for teacher professional development that will eventually result in improving teacher practices and through them student learning and achievement; (3) evaluating the efficacy of programs and practices for teacher professional development for improving teacher practices and through them student learning and achievement; (4) evaluating the effectiveness of teacher professional development programs that are implemented at scale and intended for improving teacher practices and through them student learning and achievement; and (5) developing and validating new assessments of teacher quality, or validating existing assessments for teachers at any grade level from kindergarten through high school against measures of student achievement. Under these goals, the Institute supports development and evaluation of teacher professional development interventions for (a) teaching reading or writing from elementary school through high school and (b) teaching basic skills in reading or writing to adults.
Long term outcomes of the Teacher Quality program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., in-service programs, assessments) that have been demonstrated to be effective for improving and assessing teacher performance in ways that are linked to increases in student achievement. In this Request for Applications, the term professional development refers to the in-service training of current teachers.
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