Teacher Logs as Research Tool
July 13th, 2009
I have been wrapping up a long-term research project using video methodology to observe classrooms. This was a time- and resource-intensive project. I have been wondering about existing research on the tradeoffs of using teacher logs to gather information about teaching and classroom events. I came across two interesting studies of this coauthored by Eric [...]
Tags: teacher logs
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Modeling STEM Participation
July 10th, 2009
So, you’re a big school district or university and you want to put some initiatives in place to help increase the number of students interested in STEM careers. But what changes will have the biggest effect? Will some changes have negative effects you haven’t thought about yet? If you change multiple things, what would be [...]
Tags: statistical modeling, STEM interest
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Variability in Teaching
July 8th, 2009
In an article about methodological challenges of studying the teaching of reading in Educational Researcher, Croninger and Valli include the following:
“…when we examined variation in the quality of teacher-student oral exchanges across observations, we discovered that most of the variance in these exchanges occurred among lessons enacted by the same teachers.”
In fact, they found that [...]
Tags: observation, Teachers, variability
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Prepared for College-Level Math Courses?
July 6th, 2009
There has been a long debate about the best way to teach math, and very recent discussion about high schools preparing college-ready students. Both issues were raised by a recent article in the American Educational Research Journal.
In the early 1990’s the National Science Foundation funded the creation of 13 mathematics programs that were mostly problem [...]
Tags: Assessment, college-ready, math, Students
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R&D in Chronically Failing Schools
July 5th, 2009
The Institute for Educational Sciences has a new grant call out asking researchers to develop tools to help school leaders turn around chronically failing schools. As is pointed out over at Inside School Research, the request for proposals is interesting in itself.
First, the call says it will not fund any “efficacy studies with group designs.” [...]
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Do Teacher Tests Predict Teaching Performance?
July 3rd, 2009
The majority of states now require some form of paper-and-pencil test for teacher licensure (although the content of these tests varies greatly). The idea of these tests is presumably to make sure that teachers coming into the system meet some minimum requirement. An empirical question, however, is whether these tests predict teaching performance.
Over the years, [...]
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Welcome!
July 2nd, 2009
Welcome to the launch of Communications Learning & Education Research. Aside from the research services, this blog will be a place where I will review and comment on recent research in education. I hope you enjoy it, and please comment as you wish!
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