Ambition Institute

Effective teacher professional development: new theory and a meta-analytic test

Sam Sims, Harry Fletcher-Wood, Alison O’Mara-Eves, Sarah Cottingham, Claire Stansfield, Josh Goodrich, Jo Van Herwegen, Jake Anders. January 2022

Topics: Teacher and Leader Development

Tags: Professional development

Multiple meta-analyses have now documented small positive effects of teacher professional development (PD) on pupil test scores. However, the field lacks any validated explanatory account of what differentiates more from less effective in-service training. As a result, researchers have little in… more →
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Institutions: University College London, Ambition Institute, Step Lab