The project synthesizes research on the relationship between teachers' qualifications and the quality of their teaching practice. Qualifications include education, credentials and test scores. Evidence for quality of practice includes observations of practice and student test scores.
The project has three goals. First, because the issue is contentious, and because advocates are selective in their use of this literature, we want to develop a omplete index of this literature. Second, because the work is so various in its design and methodologies, we want to explore alternative methods for synthesizing it that are accurate and that reflect the range of available evidence. Finally, because the quality of this literature is so various, we want to articulate problems of quality and methodology as a guide for consumers of this literature.
Specific projects currently under way include:
-- Snthesis of regression slopes;
-- Synthesis of studies using student mathematics achievement as their outcome;
-- Synthesis of qualitative studies.
The Principal Investigator of Causal Inference in Instructional Workforce Research is Mary M. Kennedy.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.msu.edu/ user/ mkennedy/
TQQT/
.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the Causal Inference
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
Causal Inference in Instructional Workforce Research project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
