Interactive Data Tools
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality provides several online, interactive tools.
Critical Decisions Guide: Building Teacher Effectiveness Systems
The Critical Decisions Guide: Building Teacher Effectiveness Systems offers states and districts resources and tools to guide the decisions required to build better teacher effectiveness systems. This guide is designed to assist education leaders as they think critically about each phase in the development of their system. For each decision, users are provided a series of questions for consideration as well as links to resources available from the TQ Center and other education organizations to assist in responding to these questions.
Guide to Teacher Evaluation Products
The Guide to Teacher Evaluation Products is a searchable database of products used for evaluating teacher effectiveness. This tool includes detailed descriptions of over 80-products listed in eight general evaluation categories including classroom observations, portfolios, instructional artifacts, teacher self-report measures, student performance measures, value-added models and combination models.
Custom Data Reporting Tools
These tools allow users to generate customized data tables about teacher preparation and teacher recruitment and retention using data from the 2003–2004 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Common Core of Data (CCD), conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Teacher Preparation Data Tool
Uses data from the SASS.
Teacher Recruitment and Retention Data Tool
Uses data from the SASS as well as the CCD.
Supporting Resource for the Custom Data Reporting Tools:
The Value of Reliable Data (
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Outlines how to use these tools to extract valuable customized information on teacher preparation. Includes illustrations based on real questions and answers that the TQ Center has received from its constituents.
Annotated Public Opinion Research on Teachers and Teacher Quality
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A comprehensive annotated list of the existing public opinion research on teacher quality.
