Teacher Collaboration in Instructional Teams and Student Achievement

2015/05/08 by Matthew Ronfeldt, Susanna Owens Farmer, Kiel McQueen +1 · 21 citations
Decision Sciences · Social Sciences · #Educational Assessment and Improvement #Teacher Education and Leadership Studies #Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion

paper · doi:10.3102/0002831215585562

Abstract

This study draws upon survey and administrative data on over 9,000 teachers in 336 Miami-Dade County public schools over 2 years to investigate the kinds of collaborations that exist in instructional teams across the district and whether these collaborations predict student achievement. While different kinds of teachers and schools report different collaboration quality, we find average collaboration quality is related to student achievement. Teachers and schools that engage in better quality collaboration have better achievement gains in math and reading. Moreover, teachers improve at greater rates when they work in schools with better collaboration quality. These results support policy efforts to improve student achievement by promoting teacher collaboration about instruction in teams.

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