Teacher development: Measuring what matters
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Chris Larvin, Research Specialist, Teach First, UK
Jenny Griffiths, Knowledge & Research Manager, Teach First, UK
Luke Bocock, Head of Research & Learning, Teach First, UK
Recent research suggests that the impact of high-quality teacher development on pupil outcomes can be equivalent to a pupil taught by a teacher with 10 years of experience compared with a graduate (EPI, 2020). Despite an abundance of claims about the impact of professional development, these are rarely scrutinised with respect to their validity and reliability. Anecdotes and testimonials from past participants, while an effective marketing tool, can be highly subjective and unreliable (Guskey, 2009). Similarly, traditional approaches to measuring and evaluating the impact of programmes generally rely heavily on self-reported impact. So how can we know whether or not a teacher development programme is effective?
Measuring teacher development
Most sources of information on the impact of professional deve
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Sounds very interesting. It would be great to have links to examples of these tools.