Measures of Effective Teaching

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation recently outlined the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study which calls for educational researchers to collect public school data on a voluntary basis for the purpose of uncovering the indicators of a teacher's impact on student achievement.

The primary goal of this study is to "develop objective and reliable measures of effective teaching." The researchers will focus upon the following indicators:

• student feedback through surveys
• looking at student work
• supplemental student achievement assessments
• recorded classroom lessons
• teacher reflections of the recorded lessons
• assessment of teachers' ability to recognize and diagnose student learning problems
• teacher surveys on working conditions

More information regarding this educational research can be found online at the following website.