April 19, 2023 1

Teacher Education Accreditation Council

One Dupont Circle, Suite 320Washington DCwww.teac.org 202-466-7236

April 19, 2023 2

The Teacher Education Disconnect

Frank B. Murray

James Raths

Chaitanya Ramineni

School of Education

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware

April 19, 2023 3

Correlations Among Scores of Student Accomplishment (Texas)

Variables Ped A&S SAT SAT ACT Tch Fac

GPA .16 .47* .27 .49* .51* -.08 -.17

EXCETp .61* .68* .24 .30 .24 .20

EXCETas .71* .43* .49 .00 -.09

SAT v .39* .73* -.03 -.04

SAT m .63* -.51* -.42*

ACT -.22 -.46

Coop Tch * .81*

April 19, 2023 4

Correlations among clinical measures and license test (Colorado)

Student Teaching Student Teaching

Port-

folio

Coop

Mid-term

Teacher

Final

Faculty

Mid-term

Faculty

Final

Cooperating Teach. Mid

.09

CooperatingTeach final

.26 .43*

Faculty mid .01 .45* .39*Faculty final .07 .28 .32* .50*License Test .37* .07 .07 -.13 -.17

April 19, 2023 5

Explanations

Restricted variance (grade and rater inflation)

Two separate domains Invalid measurements (ignoring academic

component of clinical and vice versa) Relationship is curvilinear, not linear

April 19, 2023 6

Correlations among GPAs, PGI, SATs, Math, and Student Teaching (Delaware)

N=170 GPA GPA GPA Math SAT SATv SATm Clinical

PGI (hs+) .62* .63* .62* .36* .67* .60* .54* .02GPA spring .96* .84* .53* .48* .45* .36* .16GPA 3 sem .89* .54* .47* .36* .45* .16GPA final .57* .41* .57* .37* .26*Math 251 .37* .19* .43* .14SAT sum .83* .87* -.07SATv .45* -.06SATm -.06

April 19, 2023 7

Correlations among clinical and other measures (N=69) New York

Meth A&S Educ LAST ATS Pupil Sugg.

Attit-t Depend

Maj. .59* .63* .68* .58* .45* .05 .07 .05 .28*Meth .58* .91* .56* .49* .02 .05 -.02 .19A&S .69* .37* .21 .18 .20 .30* .37*Educ .55* .45* .08 .13 .08 .30*LAST .68* .07 .00 -.02 .17ATS -.18 -.16 -.19 -.01Pupil .66* .70* .50*Sugg .80* .58*Att-t .68*

April 19, 2023 8

Scattergram of clinical scores (1-5) and GPA (1-4) in teacher education (VA)

Clinical

1-5

GPA GPA GPA GPA GPA GPA GPA GPA

2.6 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8 4.0

5.0 1 2 3 5 5 6 4 0

4.5 0 3 5 5 6 2 2 1

4.0 0 0 2 0 6 3 0 0

3.5 0 2 2 3 4 3 2 0

3.0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0

April 19, 2023 9

Clinical scores (1-5) and GPA (1-4) in teacher education (VA)

Low Grades

2.6-3.2

High Grades

3.4-4.0

High Clinical

4.5-5.024 26

Low Clinical

3.0-4.010 21

April 19, 2023 10

Correlations between teaching skill & academic measures (Colorado) N=56

GPA

Major

GPA

Educ.

GPA

Overall

PLACE

Test

ETS

Profile

Teaching Skill

.10 .17 .12 .03 .08

April 19, 2023 11

Correlations among measures in masters program in teacher ed. (NY)

LAST ATS CST T 1 T 2 T 3 Port Awards

GPA -.01 .21 .31 .32 .68* .52* .69* .41LAST .53* .51 .02 -.16 .21 .10 -.13ATS-w .40 -.27 -.25 .22 .39 -.11CST .48 .35 .35 .01 .09Time 1 .59* .60* .19 .22Time 2 .61* .42 .32Time 3 .12 .32

April 19, 2023 12

Correlations of clinical ratings with other program measures (Missouri) r = .70*

GPA A&S GPA Praxis II C-Base

Faculty

Mo Step 1 .82* .70* .65* .74*

Coop. Teach

Mo Step 1.47 .40 .50 -.02

Faculty 1-10 .57* .57* .40 .07

Coop 1-10 .33 .32 .33 .06

April 19, 2023 13

Correlations Between Clinical and Academic Measures (Albany)

GPA LAST ATS-W CST Clinical 1

LAST -.15

ATS-W .04 .32

CST .59* .37 .18

Clinical 1 -.11 -.38 -.10 -.07

Clinical 2 -.12 -.35 -.01 -.10 .80*

April 19, 2023 14

Correlations Between Clinical and Academic Measures (Binghamton)

Clinical GPA

u/g

GPA GRE

Verbal

GRE

Math

GRE

Anal.

Essay

Subj.

Matter

.32 .33 .15 .29 .17 .40

Peda-gogy

.14 .43 .01 .01 .-03 .03

Tchng.

Skill

.25 .40 -.11 .00 .02 -.07

April 19, 2023 15

Correlations Among Clinical Measures (Binghamton)

Clinical Subject Matter

Pedagogy

Pedagogy .63*

Teaching Skill

.56* .85*

April 19, 2023 16

Correlations Between Clinical and Academic Measures (Buffalo)

Clinical GPA

U/G

GPA LAST CST ATS-W

Subj.

Matter

.26* .30* .11 .37* .01

Peda-gogy

.06 .11 .06 .10 -.09

PCK .08 .18* .06 .18 .01

April 19, 2023 17

Correlations Between Clinical and Academic Measures (Hardwick)

GPA

educ

GPA

cont

GPA

A&S

GPA CST ATS LAST

Stud.

Tchg

.38* .30 .33 .39* .09 .33 .55*

April 19, 2023 18

Correlations Between Clinical and Academic Measures (Manhattan) r=.67

Student Teaching

GPA GPA

Cont.

GPA

A&S

GPA

Educ

LAST ATS

1 .44* .26* .33* .67* -.08 .09

2 .35* .17 .23* .57* -.02 .03

April 19, 2023 19

Correlations Between Clinical and Academic Measures (Mt. St. Vincent)

GPA GPA ED LAST ATS-W

GPA ED .67*

LAST .43* .21

ATS-W .49* .30* .44*

Student Teaching .50* .53* .15 .10

April 19, 2023 20

Plagues on Both Houses

Findings are not consistent with– Subject matter and natural teaching skills– Teacher education programs, apart from

clinical portions, are necessary and sufficient for teaching

Consistent with apprenticeship & internship models, but…….