PUBLICATION SERIES: CTERIN Research Briefs

Explore our CTERIN FOCUS series of briefs to learn about the research work CTERIN has been helping produce.

 

CTERIN Focus Brief: Building a Teacher Data System in California

Aim 1, the subject of this brief, focuses on creating a unified data system for California’s teacher education system, from preparation to classroom. A key goal for this is to combine data from two state agencies—the California Department of Education (CDE) and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC)—to create a teacher level data system. By combining these data sets, we will be able to investigate patterns related to how California’s teachers are prepared, where they become employed, who they serve, and how long they stay. In the following sections, we explore: (1) why this is an important aim and how it fits in the state’s data landscape; (2) where we are in the process of this work; (3) key decisions we have made thus far that will shape our future path as well as lessons learned; and (4) our next steps. This brief serves as a progress report of our work and focuses on our methodological and analytical processes.

CTERIN Focus Brief: Preparing to Educate Students with Learning Disabilities: Implications for Instructional Practices in Mathematics

The inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms has become a major aim of federal education policy, and the focus of state and local officials. Teacher preparation programs are taking on increased responsibility to prepare all teachers, whether or not they are working towards a special education credential. This study explores how teachers perceive their own preparation for working with students with disabilities, specifically in the area of math instruction, and then revisits these teachers during their first year in the classroom as the teacher of record.

CTERIN Focus Brief: Are You Going to be a Teacher? Racialized and Gendered Patterns in Earning a Teaching Credential

In this work, Melissa Quesada and Dr. Irenee Beattie explore racial and gender disparities amongst college students earning a teaching credential, as well as the role of college achievement and experiences in these differences.

Improving the Preparation of Teachers to Build on Multilingual Students' Strengths: Poster Presentation

In April 2020, CTERIN ETE Fellow Carlos Sandoval presented at the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education.

CTERIN Focus Brief: Supervision Across UC Teacher Education Programs

Guided by a network improvement community consisting of directors and supervisors from eight Universities across California, this work examines current supervision practices and identifies common challenges as a means to understand what effective supervision and feedback to student teachers looks like and entails. 

CTERIN Focus Brief: Recruiting and Preparing the Next Generation of Bilingual Teachers

This work by Jimenez-Silva, Ruiz & Smith at UC Davis explores how California's Mini-Corps Program, which recruits bilingual college students to work in educational settings, may be useful in helping California recruit bilingual teachers to serve the state's diverse learners.

CTERIN Focus Brief: Understanding Preservice Teachers' Formative Feedback Practices

This work by Duckor, Holmberg, Patthoff & Tellez at UC Santa Cruz, with partners at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley, explores how pre-service teachers implement formative assessment practices in their placements, and how teacher educators can promote these practices.

CTERIN Focus Brief: Is the Team All Right? Depends on Who You Know

This study by Rebecca Ambrose & Sombo Koo at UC Davis explores social networks of pre-service teachers. Explore their work in the first ever issue of the CTERIN Focus Research Brief series.