Effects of a Teacher Professional Development Program on the Mathematics Achievement of Middle Level Students
Abstract
"We developed and offered 20 integrated STEM content-pedagogy professional development courses to teachers in seven districts. Students who received instruction from a participating teacher after the teacher took one mathematics course had 1.3 times greater odds of at least a proficient outcome on our state math assessment than students who received instruction from the same teacher before the teacher took a math PD course. Such effects were even stronger for teachers took two or more mathematics PD courses. This finding is important: teaching mathematics teachers deeper content and how to use an inquiry-based approach to deliver that content translates into greater student proficiency in mathematics. Likewise, doing more of such PD with teachers confers greater effects on their students."View All Paper Session Presentations from the 2011 MSP LNC Conference