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Teacher Preparation Programs and Teacher Quality: Are There Real Differences Across Programs?

Author(s) -

Cory Koedel,

Eric Parsons,

Michael Podgursky,

Mark Ehlert

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

education finance and policy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.413

H-Index - 25

eISSN - 1557-3079

pISSN - 1557-3060

DOI - 10.1162/edfp_a_00172

Subject(s) - teacher preparation , teacher quality , mathematics education , variation (astronomy) , quality (philosophy) , teacher education , sampling (signal processing) , work (physics) , psychology , computer science , operations management , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , metric (unit) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , filter (signal processing) , astrophysics , computer vision

We compare teacher preparation programs in Missouri based on the effectiveness of their graduates in the classroom. The differences in effectiveness between teachers from different preparation programs are much smaller than has been suggested in previous work. In fact, virtually all of the variation in teacher effectiveness comes from within-program differences between teachers. Prior research has overstated differences in teacher performance across preparation programs by failing to properly account for teacher sampling.

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