Education

The team that developed CLASS will use this grant to develop easy-to-administer tools that assess teacher-student interactions using student and informant (principal/supervisor) surveys.

How do district and school staff acquire, interpret, and use research evidence to reform schools designated as in need of “corrective action” by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)?

How can instruction and English Language Learner (ELL) services be best adapted for language minority students?

Hill and her research team have been developing a video observation protocol that assesses the teaching of mathematics, and they will use this grant to make it more user-friendly, reliable, and accurate.

Support was given to Morningside Center for a collaborative project with the University of Virginia to continue to develop and bring to scale the CLASS/My Teaching Partner as a tool for the professional development of teachers.

Support was given for the development of a series of reports from the Brookings Institution (titled “Brown Center Letter on Education Policy.”)

Martinez and Borko will test the reliability and validity of a measure of “Quality Assessment” in middle school science that combines use of classroom artifacts and teacher and student surveys.

Is it possible to identify and accurately measure the instructional practices of middle school English/language arts classrooms that predict classroom effects on student achievement?

Wortham will use this award to learn about the challenges districts, schools, and practicing educators face in serving immigrant Mexican students.

The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) is a promising observational instrument that measures student-teacher classroom interactions in elementary school classrooms.