Eight of ten dimensions of instructional practice are common across all five examined teacher observation instruments¶
Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associationalr?·q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2019: tool and model accuracy changes quickly
Subclaims¶
Reading the evidence codes
q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r
the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.
This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.
q2 i? Eight of the ten dimensions of instructional practice measured appear in all five of the examined teacher observation instruments. → Brian Gill 2016
Evidence¶
Brian Gill 2016¶
Brian Gill, Megan Shoji, Thomas Coen, Kate Place. (2016). The Content, Predictive Power, and Potential Bias in Five Widely Used Teacher Observation Instruments. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/midatlantic
q2 · i? · associational · r?
The report's content comparison of five widely used observation instruments, using Measures of Effective Teaching project data, found that "Eight of ten dimensions of instructional practice are common across all five examined teacher observation instruments."
"Eight of ten dimensions of instructional practice are common across all five examined teacher observation instruments."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- The classroom management dimension is most consistently and strongly related to teachers' value-added scores across instruments, subjects, and grades — related
- All seven dimensions of instructional practice with quantitative data are modestly but significantly related to teachers' value-added scores — related
- Classroom student characteristics affect teacher observation results for some instruments, more often in English language arts than in math classes — related
- TAILS dimensions show high internal consistency, with Cronbach's alpha values above 0.90 — related
Page metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
type |
claim |
id |
eight-of-ten-dimensions-common-across-five-observation-instruments |
title |
Eight of ten dimensions of instructional practice are common across all five examined teacher observation instruments |
description |
Eight of ten dimensions of instructional practice are common across all five examined teacher observation instruments |
status |
review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
newest_evidence |
2016 |
recheck_by |
2019 |
generated |
by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-08 |
trust |
unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content |
sources |
1 — brian-gill-2016 |
Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.