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Feedback for better teaching: Nine principles for using measures of effective teaching

This brief highlights a set of guiding principles to inform the design and implementation of high-quality teacher support and evaluation systems based on three years’ of work by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, its partners, and other leading school systems and organizations.

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Ensuring fair and reliable measures of effective teaching

The MET project is a research partnership of academics, teachers, and education organizations committed to investigating better ways to identify and develop effective teaching. This study involved 3,000 teacher volunteers who opened their classrooms so that we could learn more about teacher practice. The culminating results from the research are detailed in this report. Learn more >

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