Peter Youngs is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education at the University of Virginia. His research interests focus on teacher development and education policy effects on teaching and learning in the core academic subjects including teacher preparation, induction, and evaluation and their effects on teacher instruction, commitment, and retention. Recent publications have appeared in Elementary School Journal, Teachers College Record, and Teaching and Teacher Education. He received the AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Early Career Award, he previously served as co-editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2016-18), and he currently serves as co-editor of American Educational Research Journal (2020-22).
Peter Youngs
Institution
University of Virginia
Title
Professor
Email
pay2n@virginia.edu
EdWorkingPapers
Teacher Evaluation, Ambitious Mathematics Instruction, and Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Evidence from Early Career Teachers
While teacher evaluation policies have been central to efforts to enhance teaching quality over the past decade, little is known about how teachers change their instructional practices in response to such policies. To address this question, this paper drew on classroom observation and survey… more →