Connecting Teacher Education and Pupil Learning: Evidence Emerging from the Teachers for a New Era Initiative: CSU NORTHRIDGE

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Connecting Teacher Education and Pupil Learning
Evidence Emerging from the Teachers for a New Era
Initiative CSU NORTHRIDGE

• Dr. Beverly Cabello
• Assessment Co-leader

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Research Questions

• Original Pilot Study Questions
• ?Are there significantly different pupil
  achievement patterns by pathway?
• ?Is there a relationship between teacher
  preparation factors and pupil performance?
• ?Which set of variables have a greater impact on
  pupil test scores, those relating to teacher
  preparation programs, those relating to teacher
  in-service experience, or those relating to
  school characteristics?

• Added or transformed by CRESST - KCHOI
• ?Do teacher effect estimates change over time?
• ?What do teacher effect profile trajectories look
  like?
• ?To what extent do teachers
• background characteristics relate to teacher
  effect profile trajectories
• ?To what extent are estimates of change in
  teacher effects influenced by school
  characteristics?

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Opportunities Challenges

• Data Warehouse
• CSU/LAUSD Partners
• Arts Sciences
• CRESST
• Multiple studies

• Data Warehouse
• Cultural divides
• Need more, better data therefore
• State policy changes

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Electronic Data Available Before After TNE

• BEFORE
• ? Course Grades
• ? Cumulative GPA
• ? Some state test scores

• AFTER
• GPA x professional courses at transition
  points
• Field-work evaluations
• Portfolio Evaluations
• Disposition Evaluations
• In near future PACT
• Pathway identification

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Findings Issues

• Pilot Findings
• 1. Significant Mean differences between pathways
  on reading writing NRTs
• 2. Increases in reading writing with dip in
  03
• 3. Some significant differences between CSUN
  Non CSUN

• CRESST/CHOI
• No difference between CSUN Non-CSUN teachers on
  
• pupil gain scores controlling for school risk
  factors.
• See Kilchan Choi (2007) Teacher Effect Change
  Model Latent Variable Regression in 5-Level
  Hierarchical Models (AERA 2007)

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Use of Findings

• Multiple data sources
• ? CSU Chancellors teacher exit survey
  Systemwide Evaluation of Teacher Preparation
• Data from our warehouse
• Pupil learning studies
• Multiple discussions use of data at different
  levels