CPS Elementary Teacher Survey and General Reform Index

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Evidence · 5 claims (5 for) · 3 studies (2 associational, 1 qualitative), q2 · 0 of 3 report an effect size · 5 claims rest on one study

Description

A Chicago Public Schools survey and composite reform index developed to measure elementary teachers' views of school governance, work conditions, school quality, instruction, and school reform in 1991.

Components

• CPS Elementary Teacher Survey and General Reform Index (1991): An 8-page survey of Chicago Public Schools elementary teachers administered in late May and June of 1991, completed by 12,708 teachers with a 70 percent overall response rate, covering governance, work conditions, school quality, and instruction. The report combines reform attitude and change items into a "General Reform Index that combines the teachers' responses to the questions on attitudes towards school reform" and ten school-quality clusters with acceptable Cronbach alpha internal consistency. School profiles were returned to 401 schools with response rates of 50 percent or greater. (Easton et al. (1991))

Claims

• Chicago elementary teachers are moderately positive about school reform, with about 60 percent agreeing their school is getting better since reform began [+W]
• School size is the characteristic most related to teachers' reform and school-quality ratings, with small schools (350 students or fewer) rated most positively [+W]
• Teachers report very high self-perceived competence and efficacy that are virtually unrelated to their schools' prior achievement levels [+W]
• Between 1991 and 1994, elementary teachers' test-preparation time increased and responses converged toward moderate agreement on reform items [+W]
• Chicago elementary teachers spent an estimated 155,464 hours preparing students for standardized tests in 1990-1991 [+W]

Related Products and Programmes

• Improving Chicago Schools: The Students Speak, 1997 and Improving Chicago Schools: The Teachers' Turn, 1997

Key Sources

• Easton, J. Q., Bryk, A. S., Driscoll, M., Kotsakis, J. G., Sebring, P. A., & van der Raeg, A. J. (1991). Charting Reform: The Teachers' Turn — Report No. 1 on a Survey of CPS Elementary School Teachers. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/charting-reform-teachers-turn

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