TY - JOUR
T1 - Describing Profiles of Instructional Practice
T2 - A New Approach to Analyzing Classroom Observation Data
AU - Halpin, Peter F.
AU - Kieffer, Michael J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here was supported by funding from the Institute of Education Sciences (R305D140035) and the Spencer Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation (Grant No. 201300093). The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of these organizations.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, © 2015 AERA.
PY - 2015/6/11
Y1 - 2015/6/11
N2 - The authors outline the application of latent class analysis (LCA) to classroom observational instruments. LCA offers diagnostic information about teachers’ instructional strengths and weaknesses, along with estimates of measurement error for individual teachers, while remaining relatively straightforward to implement and interpret. It is discussed how the methodology can support formative feedback to educators and facilitate research into the associations between instructional practices and student outcomes. The approach is illustrated with a secondary analysis of data from the Measures of Effective Teaching study, focusing on middle school literacy instruction.
AB - The authors outline the application of latent class analysis (LCA) to classroom observational instruments. LCA offers diagnostic information about teachers’ instructional strengths and weaknesses, along with estimates of measurement error for individual teachers, while remaining relatively straightforward to implement and interpret. It is discussed how the methodology can support formative feedback to educators and facilitate research into the associations between instructional practices and student outcomes. The approach is illustrated with a secondary analysis of data from the Measures of Effective Teaching study, focusing on middle school literacy instruction.
KW - psychometrics
KW - school/teacher effectiveness
KW - secondary data analysis
KW - teacher characteristics
KW - teacher education/development
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U2 - 10.3102/0013189X15590804
DO - 10.3102/0013189X15590804
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84936856079
VL - 44
SP - 263
EP - 277
JO - Educational Researcher
JF - Educational Researcher
SN - 0013-189X
IS - 5
ER -