Longitudinal Design to Measure Effects of MSP Professional Development in Improving Quality of Instruction in Mathematics and Science Education
CCSSO has established a collaborative research team involving Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and American Institutes for Research (AIR) to investigate how professional development programs and activities in multiple sites be evaluated using a common set of research-based measures, and how a survey methodology can be used to evaluate the effects of professional development in improving instruction in mathematics and science. The study will address the following research questions:
1. To what extent is the quality of the professional development supported by MSP activities consistent with a research-based definition of quality?
2. What effects do teachers' professional development experiences have on instructional practices and content taught in math and science classes? Are high-quality professional development activities more likely than lower-quality activities to increase the alignment of content with state standards and assessments?
3. How can MSP projects use study findings to improve professional development and the content and instruction of mathematics and science classes?
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"CCSSO, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, conducted a two-year study of the quality and effects of teacher professional development programs in mathematics and science. CCSSO examined...
Prior to the 2007 Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Learning Network Conference, CCSSO convened a workshop that provided MSP evaluators and project staff with the results of the CCSSO MSP...
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Findings show important cross-study evidence that teacher professional development in mathematics does have significant positive effects on student achievement.…
Conference proceedings, papers, and presentations and links to relevant research-- both online and by CD.
