A teacher engages with students in a classroom. Image credit: U-M Measures of Effective Teaching Project.
ANN ARBOR-One of the most extensive collections of videos showing teachers at work in the classroom will be available this fall at the University of Michigan to help researchers learn more about how to evaluate good teaching and how to develop excellent teachers. The videos of 3,000 teacher volunteers from around the country are a crucial piece of the Measures of Effective Teaching project, a multi-year study that set out to determine how to identify and advance strong teaching. MET is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. MET used three kinds of measures to evaluate teaching-classroom observations, student surveys and student achievement gains. Typically for classroom observations, one or two observers mark items on a checklist while watching a teacher at work. A key innovation of the MET project was to use video cameras in place of human observers; teachers set up the cameras and did the recording themselves. Now U-M's Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Science Research (ICPSR), part of the Institute for Social Research (ISR), has compiled the videos and the quantitative research that accompanies them into a collection known as the MET Longitudinal Database.
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