Measuring Teaching Practices at Scale : Results from the Development and Validation of the Teach Classroom Observation Tool
What goes on inside the classroom is central to student learning. Despite its importance, low- and middle-income countries rarely measure teaching practices, in part due to a lack of access to adequate classroom observation tools and the high trans...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/464361543244734516/Measuring-Teaching-Practices-at-Scale-Results-from-the-Development-and-Validation-of-the-Teach-Classroom-Observation-Tool http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30880 |
| Summary: | What goes on inside the classroom is
central to student learning. Despite its importance, low-
and middle-income countries rarely measure teaching
practices, in part due to a lack of access to adequate
classroom observation tools and the high transaction costs
associated with administering them. Teach, a new,
open-source classroom observation tool for primary
classrooms, was developed to capture the quantity and
quality of teaching practices in these settings with a
simple, easy-to-administer tool. This paper validates the
use of Teach scores for system diagnostics by providing four
types of evidence. First, it provides evidence that the
practices included in the tool have a clear conceptual
underpinning. Second, almost 90 percent of local observers
in Mozambique, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Uruguay were
highly accurate using Teach after a four-day training.
Third, using data from 845 classrooms in Pakistan, the paper
shows that Teach scores are internally consistent, present
moderate to high inter-rater reliability in the field (.75
intraclass correlation coefficient), and provide substantial
information that allows to differentiate teachers, even
those with similar but not equal scores. Finally, teachers
who display effective practices, as measured by Teach, are
associated with students who achieve higher learning outcomes. |
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