Scholar Questions Induction Study Results
The Institute of Education Science's study on intensive teacher induction is getting a lot of buzz, and at least one scholar is worried that it may be giving an inaccurate picture of the effects of mentoring.
The study found positive effects in both reading and math that, relatively speaking, are quite large. As the New Teacher Center's Liam Goldrick points out on his blog, the effect sizes for mentoring given in this report are larger than those produced in other large-scale randomized studies, such as one on Teach For America.
But Jonah Rockoff, an associate professor at Columbia University's School of Business who's studied induction programs in New York City, said to be cautious about the results. For one, he noted that despite these large achievement boosts, the data don't show any other effects that would seem to confirm the results. Teachers
The study found positive effects in both reading and math that, relatively speaking, are quite large. As the New Teacher Center's Liam Goldrick points out on his blog, the effect sizes for mentoring given in this report are larger than those produced in other large-scale randomized studies, such as one on Teach For America.
But Jonah Rockoff, an associate professor at Columbia University's School of Business who's studied induction programs in New York City, said to be cautious about the results. For one, he noted that despite these large achievement boosts, the data don't show any other effects that would seem to confirm the results. Teachers
