Comprehensive Educator Effectiveness Models That Work: Impact of the TAP System on Student Achievement in Louisiana
Barnett, Joshua H.; Wills, Kellie C.; Kirby, Peggy C. (2014). National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. Retrieved from: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED556325
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examining132Schools, gradesK-8
Grant Competition
Review Details
Reviewed: February 2018
- Grant Competition (findings for TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement)
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Meets WWC standards with reservations because it uses a quasi-experimental design with cluster-level inferences, in which the analytic intervention and comparison groups are shown to be equivalent.
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Findings
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Outcome measure |
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Intervention mean |
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Improvement index |
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K-8 Assessment Index |
TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement vs. Unknown |
1 Year |
Full sample;
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78.63 |
76.79 |
No |
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Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Characteristics of study sample as reported by study author.
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Louisiana
Study Details
Setting
The study was conducted using 132 (66 intervention and 66 comparison) elementary, middle, and combination (K-8) schools located in Louisiana.
Study sample
The treatment and comparison groups were each comprised of 47 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, and 4 combination schools. The average percentage of students receiving free/reduced price lunch was approximately 86% in both the treatment and comparison schools. And the average number of students per school was 495 in the treatment and comparison schools.
Intervention Group
The System for Teacher and Student Advancement (TAP) is an educator effectiveness model that uses on-going professional development delivered via local teachers, who serve in TAP schools as master and mentor teachers. TAP schools also use an evaluation rubric, performance-based compensation, and multiple career roles to improve educator effectiveness and, in turn, student achievement. Participating teachers have the opportunity to earn bonuses, based on observations of their skills, knowledge, and responsibilities, students' average growth, and the entire school's average growth. The TAP System schools have multiple measures of performance that provided feedback to teachers, in addition to a summative rating at the end of the year. TAP teachers participate in weekly cluster meetings, led by master and mentor teachers. Professional development also includes master teachers modeling lessons and observing classroom instruction.
Comparison Group
The matched comparison condition did not implement TAP. The authors do not describe the comparison condition.
Support for implementation
The Louisiana Department of Education received a TIF-3 grant in fall 2010 to implement TAP in 68 public schools.
Grant Competition
Review Details
Reviewed: February 2016
- Grant Competition
- Quasi-Experimental Design
- Meets WWC standards with reservations
This review may not reflect the full body of research evidence for this intervention.
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Findings
Evidence Tier rating based solely on this study. This intervention may achieve a higher tier when combined with the full body of evidence.
Sample Characteristics
Study sample characteristics were not reported.An indicator of the effect of the intervention, the improvement index can be interpreted as the expected change in percentile rank for an average comparison group student if that student had received the intervention.
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