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Teacher Preparation Programs and Teacher Quality: Are There Real Differences Across Programs
We compare teacher preparation programs in Missouri based on the effectiveness of their graduates in the classroom. The differences in effectiveness between teachers from different preparation programs are very small. In fact, virtually all of the variation in teacher effectiveness comes from within-program differences between teachers. Prior research has overstated differences in teacher performance across preparation programs for several reasons, most notably because some sampling variability in the data has been incorrectly attributed to the preparation programs.
Keywords: Teacher Preparation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Training
Citation: Cory Koedel, Eric Parsons, Michael Podgursky, Mark Ehlert (2012). Teacher Preparation Programs and Teacher Quality: Are There Real Differences Across Programs. CALDER Working Paper No. 79
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Education Level: K-12
Research Area: Educator effectiveness
Topic Area: Teacher preparation