OERI Meeting: April 2002

A meeting of researchers supported by OERI (through its Field-Initiated Grants Program or National Research Centers Programs) to study teaching quality issues was held in Washington, DC, on April 25-26, 2002. The Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP), an OERI-funded research center, hosted the meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to share work on these studies at midstream, and to encourage dialogue among different traditions of research, which are addressing questions of teacher or teaching quality from different disciplinary and methodological vantage points.

Below is information on the presentations made by some of those researchers. There are links to their own websites or slide sets or summaries that they have agreed to post here.

The Study of Instructional Improvement—Deborah Loewenberg Ball and David Cohen, Univerisity of Michigan/Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy

TQ ~> QT: Teacher Qualifications and the Quality of Teaching—Mary Kennedy and Betsy Becker, Michigan State University

Predicting the Graduation Rates of Candidates in Alternative Teacher Credentialing Programs in California—Elaine Chin and Barry D. Floyd, California Polytechnic State University and John W. Young, Rutgers University

Learning through Teaching in an After School Pedagogical Laboratory (L-TAPL)—Michèle Foster, Claremont Graduate University

Out of Field Teaching in American Secondary Schools (link to web site)—Richard Ingersoll, Univerisity of Pennsylvania/Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy

Districts as Change Agents: Levers for System-Wide Instructional Improvement—Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Joan E. Talbert, Sarah Gilbert, Amy M. Hightower, Jennifer L. Husbands, Julie A. Marsh, and Viki M. Young, Stanford University/Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy

CPRE Web Site—Thomas Corcoran, Univerisity of Pennsylvania/Consortium for Policy Research in Education

The Design of State Strategies for Improving Teaching and the Teaching Force—Michael S. Knapp, University of Washington/Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy

CPRE Teacher Compensation Web Site—Allan Odden, Univerisity of Wisconsin-Madison/Consortium for Policy Research in Education

National Board Certification: What Factors Affect Application and Success?—Dan Goldhaber and David Perry, Urban Institute; Drew Gitomer, ETS

Attracting and Retaining Qualified Teachers Epecially to Low-Performing School—Hamp Lankford and Jim Wyckoff, University at Albany, SUNY

Professionalizing Teaching & Standards-Based Reforms—Barnett Berry, Southeast Center for Teaching Quality/Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy

AERA Conference: March 2002

Session 15.25—Districts as Change Agents: Levers for System-Wide Instructional Improvement

• Districts as Change Agents: Levers for System-Wide Instructional Improvement—Milbrey W. McLaughlin, Amy M. Hightower, Julie A. Marsh, Jennifer L. Husbands, Viki M. Young

Session 30.05—How Reform Ideas Travel

• How Reform Ideas Travel, or Do They?: A Close Look at Instructional Reform Policy in Two Urban Districts—Michael S. Knapp, Anneke Markholt, Chrysan Gallucci
• Reform Ideas that Travel Far Afield: The Two Cultures of Reform in District #2 and San Diego—Mary Kay Stein, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan
• Traveling Ideas: Knowledge Management in San Diego City Schools—Amy M. Hightower, Milbrey McLaughlin

Session 41.01—The Design of State Strategies for Improving Teachers and Teaching

• The Design of State Strategies for Improving Teaching and the Teaching Force—Michael S. Knapp, Jim Meadows, Dylan Johnson, Barnett Berry
• Professionalizing Teaching & Standards-Based Reforms—Barnett Berry