Recent & Upcoming Talks

As the prevalence of teacher accountability measures has risen over the past decade so too has the evidence base about their potential bias against teachers of color. In this paper, we use item response theory (IRT) to build on this base of evidence, finding that teachers of different identities with comparable teaching expertise receive systematically biased observation ratings on specific items across the continuum of instructional effectiveness.

This paper uses statewide, longitudinal data on postsecondary students across public colleges and universities in Tennessee to examine the Black teacher pipeline and stages along that pipeline where we may be losing potential Black educators.

Mathematics course placement procedures have received significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, this research largely focuses on placement into community college development education coursework in a context where course recommendations are binding.

As the number of people enrolling in teacher certification programs have steadily declined across the United States, many are now predicting a teacher shortage crisis nationwide. Consistent with national trends, between 2010-11 and 2015-16, State has experienced substantial statewide declines in educator preparation program (EPP) enrollment (48 percent) and completion (32 percent).

Recent research shows what has long been suspected: pre-service teachers (PSTs) who complete their clinical placements with more effective clinical mentors (CMs) go on to become more effective teachers than their peers.

As the prevalence of teacher accountability measures has risen over the past decade since the introduction of Race to the Top, so too …

Research has found variation across teacher preparation programs (TPPs) in graduates’ workforce outcomes. Less is known, though, about …

As the prevalence of teacher accountability measures has risen over the past decade since the introduction of Race to the Top, so too …

Emerging research in teacher education is showing that cooperating teachers (CTs) have a substantial impact on preservice student teachers’ (PSTs’) future teaching trajectories. In large-scale observational studies of recent graduates in Tennessee and Washington state (Goldhaber, Krieg, & Theobald, 2020; Ronfeldt, Brockman, & Campbell, 2018), researchers found that PSTs who were placed with more instructionally effective CTs were more instructionally effective themselves.

Research has found variation across teacher preparation programs (TPPs) in graduates’ workforce outcomes. Less is known, though, about …

In order to receive initial teacher certification, teacher candidates complete clinical training, often referred to as “student teaching” or “residency,” in the classroom of a clinical mentor (CM) – a P-12 teacher who mentors them as they take on classroom teaching responsibilities.

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In this talk, I will discuss the results of the mentors matter recruitment initiative—a field experiment within a teacher preparation program that had the goal of improving student teacher experiences by recruiting mentor teachers using evaluation data.

This talk has been cancelled In order to receive initial teacher certification, teacher candidates complete clinical training, often referred to as “student teaching” or “residency,” in the classroom of a cooperating teacher (CT) – a P-12 teacher who mentors them as they take on classroom teaching responsibilities.

This talk has been cancelled While mathematics content courses are expected to provide future teachers with the needed content knowledge to become an effective educator, little is known about the effects of these courses on content knowledge development.

In order to receive initial teacher certification, teacher candidates complete clinical training, often referred to as “student teaching” or “residency,” in the classroom of a cooperating teacher (CT) – a P-12 teacher who mentors them as they take on classroom teaching responsibilities.

Technology-mediated simulations of teaching practice are becoming a more common way to introduce teachers to the dilemmas of teaching …

Evaluating the Quality of Instruction in Post-secondary Mathematics (EQIPM) is a video coding instrument that provides indicators of …

This paper reports preliminary results from a national study of the instructional decisions of experienced secondary mathematics …

The study of teachers’ perspectives on the work of teaching, particularly of its norms, has benefitted from teachers’ responses to …

Pre-service clinical experiences, like student teaching, remain one of the most effective ways to train teacher candidates. A new body …

We examine the use of virtual spaces for supporting mathematics teacher education. We detail the problems of practice that led to the …