TY  - JOUR
AB  - Valid and reliable measurements of teaching quality facilitate school-level decision-making and policies pertaining to teachers. Using nearly 1,000 word-to-word transcriptions of 4th- and 5th-grade English language arts classes, we apply novel text-as-data methods to develop automated measures of teaching to complement classroom observations traditionally done by human raters. This approach is free of rater bias and enables the detection of three instructional factors that are well aligned with commonly used observation protocols: classroom management, interactive instruction, and teacher-centered instruction. The teacher-centered instruction factor is a consistent negative predictor of value-added scores, even after controlling for teachers’ average classroom observation scores. The interactive instruction factor predicts positive value-added scores. Our results suggest that the text-as-data approach has the potential to enhance existing classroom observation systems through collecting far more data on teaching with a lower cost, higher speed, and the detection of multifaceted classroom practices.
AU  - Liu, Jing
AU  - Cohen, Julie
DA  - March 2021
DO  - 10.26300/6bqj-vh81
PY  - 2021
ST  - Measuring Teaching Practices at Scale: A Novel Application of Text-as-Data Methods
T2  - EdWorkingPapers.com
TI  - Measuring Teaching Practices at Scale: A Novel Application of Text-as-Data Methods
UR  - https://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai21-369
ID  - 343
ER  -