Duncan Chaplin
Associated IES Content
report
Descriptive Study
Professional Practice, Student Surveys, and Value-Added: Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in the Pittsburgh Public Schools
Responding to federal and state prompting, school districts across the country are implementing new teacher evaluation systems that aim to increase the rigor of evaluation ratings, better differentiate effective teaching, and support personnel and staff development initiatives that promote teacher effectiveness and ultimately improve student achievement. Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) has been working for the last several years to develop richer and more-comprehensive measures of teacher eff...
Jul 01, 2014
Grant
Estimating Relationships in NAEP
This project will compare and contrast the various methods that have been used to control for statistical bias in analyses of the NAEP data, and identify the ways and extent to which different methods contribute to differences in substantive findings. The study will also explore the use of instrumental variable [IV] models for controlling bias. IV models are common in econometric analysis, but have rarely been applied to the NAEP data.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R902B030009