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Courtney Bell; Jessalynn James; Eric S. Taylor; James Wyckoff – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2025
We study the returns to experience in teaching, estimated using supervisor ratings from classroom observations. We describe the assumptions required to interpret changes in observation ratings over time as the causal effect of experience on performance. We compare two difference-in-differences strategies: the two-way fixed effects estimator common…
Descriptors: Lesson Observation Criteria, Teaching Experience, Teacher Evaluation, Supervisors
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Marion Heron; Helen Donaghue; Kieran Balloo – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
The aim of teaching observations and post observation feedback in higher education is to support teachers to reflect on and improve their teaching. Yet, our understanding of tutors' (observers') and teachers' (observees') capacities for capitalising on these feedback opportunities is limited and there is little empirically derived advice for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Classroom Observation Techniques, Teacher Evaluation, Multiple Literacies
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Page, Damien – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Schools are risky places: the risk of a poor Ofsted report, the risk of sliding down league tables, the risk of teachers abusing children, the risk of teachers being falsely accused of abuse. As a result of risk anxiety and the ever-increasing sophistication of technology, the surveillance of teachers has proliferated, becoming a future-oriented…
Descriptors: Risk, Observation, Teacher Supervision, Lesson Observation Criteria
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Jung, Hyunyi; Newton, Jill A. – School Science and Mathematics, 2018
Mathematical modeling has been highlighted recently as Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) included Model with Mathematics as one of the Standards for Mathematical Practices (SMP) and a modeling strand in the high school standards. This common aspect of standards across most states in the United States intended by CCSSM authors and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Mathematical Models
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Cohen, Julie; Goldhaber, Dan – Educational Researcher, 2016
Improving teacher evaluation is one of the most pressing but also contested areas of educational policy. Value-added measures have received much of the attention in new evaluation systems, but they can only be used to evaluate a fraction of teachers. Classroom observations are almost universally used to assess teachers, yet their statistical…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Policy, Value Added Models