Hannah Miller
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
Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) for Predoctoral Research in the Education Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison established the Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education Sciences (ITP) in 2005. The 2009 grant allowed the program to continue its focus on training scholars in education policy and systems. The program's methodological focus was randomized controlled trials and other rigorous statistical methods, such as econometric techniques, that provide evidence on potential impacts when randomized trials are not feasible.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305B090009