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2. Outline
In the UK, teacher quality is
highly consequential, and
highly variable
Teacher quality can be improved by
replacing existing teachers with better ones
by investing in the teachers we already have
Only investing in existing teachers produces
enough improvement to produce the changes that
we need
This is not happening systematically in most
schools, but could be
2
3. Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) toolkit
3
Intervention Cost Quality of
evidence
Extra months
of learning
Feedback ££ +8
Metacognition and self-regulation ££ +8
Peer tutoring ££ +6
Early years intervention £££££ +6
One to one tuition ££££ +5
Homework (secondary) £ +5
Collaborative learning £ +5
Phonics £ +4
Small group tuition £££ +4
Behaviour interventions £££ +4
Digital technology ££££ +4
Social and emotional learning £ +4
4. Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) toolkit
4
Intervention Cost Quality of
evidence
Extra months
of learning
Parental involvement £££ +3
Reducing class size £££££ +3
Summer schools £££ +3
Sports participation £££ +2
Arts participation ££ +2
Extended school time £££ +2
Individualized instruction £ +2
After school programmes ££££ +2
Learning styles £ +2
Mentoring £££ +1
Homework (primary) £ +1
5. Educational Endowment Fund (EEF) toolkit
5
Intervention Cost Quality of
evidence
Extra months
of learning
Teaching assistants ££££ 0
Performance pay ££ 0
Aspiration interventions £££ 0
Block scheduling £ 0
School uniform £ 0
Physical environment ££ 0
Ability grouping £ -1
6. Important caveats about research findings
6
Educational research can only tell us what was, not
what might be.
Moreover, in education, “What works?” is rarely
the right question, because
everything works somewhere, and
nothing works everywhere, which is why
in education, the right question is, “Under what
conditions does this work?”
7. An illustrative example: feedback
7
Kluger and DeNisi (1996) review of 3000 research reports
Excluding those:
without adequate controls
with poor design
with fewer than 10 participants
where performance was not measured
without details of effect sizes
left 131 reports, 607 effect sizes, involving 12652
individuals
On average, feedback increases achievement
Effect sizes highly variable
38% (50 out of 131) of effect sizes were negative
8. Getting feedback right is hard
Response type Feedback indicates performance…
falls short of goal exceeds goal
Change behavior Increase effort Exert less effort
Change goal Reduce aspiration Increase aspiration
Abandon goal Decide goal is too hard Decide goal is too easy
Reject feedback Feedback is ignored Feedback is ignored
10. Teacher quality and student learning
Subject Correlation
Woodhead All 0*
Rivkin, Hanushek and Kain (2005) Reading 0.10
Rivkin, Hanushek and Kain (2005) Mathematics 0.11
Rockoff (2004) Reading 0.20
Rockoff (2004) Mathematics 0.25
Aaronson, Barrow and Sander (2007) Mathematics 0.13
11. Annual growth in achievement, by age
11
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
1.6
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
annualgrowth(SDs)
Age
Bloom, Hill, Black, and Lipsey (2008)
12. 12
Assuming that
one year’s student growth is 0.3 standard deviations
the correlation between teacher quality and student
achievement is 0.15
Then with a good teacher (1sd above the mean)
students learn 50% more
And with an outstanding teacher (2sd above the mean)
they learn 100% more
Note also that students make some progress through
maturation so these are probably underestimates of
the true effect (Fitzpatrick, Grissmer, Hastedt, 2011)
13. Teacher quality
13
The impact of teacher quality (Hanushek Rivkin, 2006)
In the classroom of the best teacher in a group of 50
teachers, students learn twice as fast as average.
In the classroom of the least effective teacher in a group of
50, students learn half as fast as average
And in the classrooms of the best teachers, students from
disadvantaged backgrounds learn as much as others (Hamre
Pianta, 2005)
Teachers make a difference
But what makes the difference in teachers?
In particular, can we predict student progress from:
Teacher qualifications?
Value-added?
Teacher observation?
15. Teacher qualifications and student progress
15
Mathematics Reading
Primary Middle High Primary Middle High
General theory of
education courses
Teaching practice
courses
Pedagogical
content courses
Advanced
university courses
Aptitude test
scores
Harris and Sass (2007)
Mathematics Reading
Primary Middle High Primary Middle High
General theory of
education courses —
Teaching practice
courses — +
Pedagogical
content courses + +
Advanced
university courses — +
Aptitude test
scores —
17. Framework for teaching (Danielson 1996)
Four domains of professional practice
1. Planning and preparation
2. Classroom environment
3. Instruction
4. Professional responsibilities
Links with student achievement (Sartain, et al. 2011)
Domains 1 and 4: no impact on student achievement
Domains 2 and 3: some impact on student achievement
17
18. A framework for teaching (Danielson, 1996)
Domain 2: The classroom environment
2a: Creating an environment of respect and rapport
2b: Establishing a culture for learning
2c: Managing classroom procedures
2d: Managing student behavior
2e: Organizing physical space
Domain 3: Instruction
3a: Communicating with students
3b: Using questioning and discussion techniques
3c: Engaging students in learning
3d: Using assessment in instruction
3e: Demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness
21. Observations and teacher quality
21
-15
-10
-5
0
5
10
15
20
Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished
Percentagechangeinrateoflearning
Reading Mathematics
Sartain, Stoelinga, Brown, Luppescu, Matsko, Miller, Durwood, Jiang, and Glazer (2011)
So, the highest rated teachers are 30%
more productive than the lowest rated
But the best teachers are 400% more
productive than the least effective
22. Imprecision of lesson observations
22
Achieving a reliability of
0.9 in judging teacher
quality through lesson
observation is likely to
require observing a
teacher teaching 6
different classes, and for
each lesson to be judged
by 5 independent
observers.
Hill, Charalambous and Kraft (2012)
23. 23
To recap
The highest rated teachers generate learning 30% faster
than the lowest rated teachers
But the most effective teachers generate learning 400%
faster than the least effective teachers
So the best observation systems we have capture less than
10% of teacher quality (in reality, less than this because
most teachers are in the middle two categories)
There is therefore a real danger that teachers will
“game the system” by aping features of observation
protocols while becoming less effective.
27. Correlation of initial and later performance
27
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
Base+1 Base+2 Base+3 Base+4 Base+5
Correlationofvalue-addedwithbaseyear
Year of prediction
All teachers New teachers
Mathematics
28. Correlation of initial and later performance
28
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
Base+1 Base+2 Base+3 Base+4 Base+5
Correlationofvalue-addedwithbaseyear
Year of prediction
All teachers New teachers
Reading
29. Issues with value-added models for teachers
29
Different (reasonable) models of value-added give
very different estimates of teacher quality
(Goldhaber, Goldschmidt and Tseng, 2013)
Teacher value-added in their first year accounts for
less than 5% of the variation in teacher quality in
their fifth year of teaching (Atteberry, Loeb and
Wyckoff, 2013)
Teachers benefit students for at least three years
after they stop teaching them (Rothstein, 2010)
31. Expertise
According to Berliner (1994), experts:
Excel mainly in their own domain
Often develop automaticity for the repetitive operations that
are needed to accomplish their goals
Are more sensitive to the task demands and social situation
when solving problems
Are more opportunistic and flexible in their teaching than
novices
Represent problems in qualitatively different ways than novices
Have faster and more accurate pattern recognition capabilities
Perceive meaningful patterns in the domain in which they are
experienced
Begin to solve problems slower but bring richer and more
personal sources of information to bear
31
32. The role of deliberate practice
Music professors at the Hochschule der Kuenst (Academy of
Music) Berlin identified 10 violin students who had the
potential for careers as international soloists (“best”
students)
The professors also identified a sample of 10 good, but not
outstanding students (“good” students)
Researchers recruited another 10 students training to be
music teachers who specialised in the violin (“Music Ed”
students)
An additional 10 middle-aged professional violinists from
two local orchestras were recruited to the study
Groups were matched in sex (7f, 3m) and for the first three
groups, age
32
33. How much do violinists practice?
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
4 9 14 19
Hoursofpractieperweek
Age
Music Ed Good Best Professionals
Ericsson, Krampe, Tesch-Römer (1993)
33
34. Violinists’ hours of practice (cumulative)
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Cumulativehoursofpractice
Age
Music Ed Good Best Professionals
34
35. These differences are substantial…
Hours of practice by age 18
Music Education students 3420
Good violin students 5301
Best violin students 7410
Professional musicians 7336
By the age of 18, the best violinists have accumulated 40%
more practice than good violinists
Since the amount of deliberate practice being undertaken
by the best students once they are adults is close to the
maximum possible, it is, essentially, impossible for the
good students to catch up to the best.
35
36. Psychomotor skills and surgical skill…
Ten junior surgical residents were tested on their ability
to perform five anastomoses on fresh porcine jenunum
Performance evaluated on:
a. Time taken in minutes
b. A “clumsiness” score (0 to 100), taking into account
“unproductive movements, fumbles and gross errors”
c. An anastomosis score found by rating on a 1 to 3 scale:
suture spacing
knots
overall tidiness
integrity of the anastomosis (tested with 10 cm head of water)
accuracy of suture in terms of extramucosal placement
Cumulative error score: a + b + 2 x (15 – c)
37. …are only weakly related
37
Residents also took three psychomotor tests:
Small parts manual dexterity test (Crawford Crawford, 1981)
Spiral maze test (Gibson, 1961)
Embedded figures test (Witkin, Oltman, Karp, 1971)
Results:
Surgical performance correlated negatively with tests of manual
dexterity, but
Improvement in surgical skill correlated positively with the
hidden figures score
The ability to create, and hold in mind, mental
representations appears to be more important than
manual dexterity in predicting surgical performance
Steele, Walder, and Herbert (1992)
38. Visual-spatial ability and surgical skill
38
37 junior surgical residents at the University of
Toronto given six tests of visual/spatial ability
Snowy pictures test (Ekstrom et al., 1976)
Gestalt completion test (Street, 1931)
Shape memory test (Ekstrom et al., 1976)
Cube comparison test (Ekstrom et al., 1976)
Form board test (Sylvester, 1881)
Mental rotations test (Vandenberg Kuse, 1978)
39. Visual-spatial ability and surgery skills
Residents were then tested on their ability to learn
and perform complex surgical procedures (two-flap
and four-flap Z–plasty on pig thighs)
41. General conclusions about expertise
Elite performance is the result of at least a decade
of maximal efforts to improve performance
through an optimal distribution of deliberate
practice
What distinguishes experts from others is the
commitment to deliberate practice
Deliberate practice is
an effortful activity that can be sustained only for a
limited time each day
neither motivating nor enjoyable—it is instrumental in
achieving further improvement in performance
41
43. Effects of experience in teaching
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
0 1 2 3 to 5
Extramonthsperyearoflearning
Years of teaching experience
43
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
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44. Implications for education systems
Pursuing a strategy of getting the “best and brightest”
into teaching is unlikely to succeed
Currently all teachers slow, and most actually
stop, improving after two or three years in the
classroom
Expertise research therefore suggests that they are
only beginning to scratch the surface of what they are
capable of
What we need is to persuade those with a real passion
for working with young people to become
teachers, and to continue to improve as long as they
stay in the job.
There is no limit to what we can achieve if we support
our teachers in the right way
45. Supportive accountability
What is needed from teachers:
A commitment to:
The continual improvement of practice
Focus on those things that make a difference to students
What is needed from leaders:
A commitment to engineer effective learning
environments for teachers by:
Creating expectations for continually improving practice
Keeping the focus on the things that make a difference to
students
Providing the time, space, dispensation, and support for
innovation
Supporting risk-taking
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