Experimenting With Teacher Professional Development: Motives and Methods

By A. Wayne, K. Yoon, Pei Zhu, Stephanie Cronen, M. Garet. 2008

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Teacher Study Group (2010, background): “The breadth of our sample, with 19 schools and 81 teachers, reaches beyond those seen in many of the earlier studies of PD.”
Beliefs about Teaching Science: The relationship between elementary teachers’ participation in professional development and student achievement (2012, result): “This finding, coupled with other studies (Wayne, Yoon, Zhu, Cronen, & Garet, 2008 ), reiterates the notion that the time teachers spend in quality professional development can have a positive impact on teachers and students.”
A Review of Empirical Literature on Inquiry Professional Development: Alignment with Best Practices and a Critique of the Findings (2012, background): “Experimental or quasi-experimental design might help to elucidate the most important features of effective PD (Wayne et al. 2008).”
The Effect of Teacher Coaching on Instruction and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of the Causal Evidence (2018, background): “generated calls for research to identify specific conditions under which PD programs might produce more favorable outcomes (Desimone, 2009; Wayne et al., 2008).”
Using Coaching to Improve the Fidelity of Evidence-Based Practices: A Review of Studies (2010, background): “Teacher satisfaction with professional development models is critical to their long-term success (Wayne et al., 2008).”
Improving Impact Studies of Teachers’ Professional Development: Toward Better Conceptualizations and Measures (2009, background): “…I conclude that we have reached a consensus that these core features play an important role in determining the effectiveness of professional development, that they are the “features of PD worth testing” (Wayne et al., 2008, p. 472), and that, as such, they should be included in impact studies.”