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Mathematics Coaching for Conceptual Understanding: Promising Evidence Regarding the Tennessee Math Coaching Model

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Mathematics Coaching for Conceptual Understanding: Promising Evidence Regarding the Tennessee Math Coaching Model
Abstract/Description
Rigorous college-and-career readiness standards require significant shifts in typical mathematics instruction. Many schools and districts employ coaches to support instructional changes. Although there is evidence that coaching programs can support teaching improvement, research has yet to identify high-leverage coaching practices. In collaboration with a network of state leaders and coaches, our research team refined a model for math coaching and documented the practices coaches employed in one-on-one work with teachers. Analysis of videotaped coaching conversations and teaching events suggests that model-trained coaches improved their capacity to use a high-leverage coaching practice—deep and specific prelesson planning conversations—and that growth in this practice predicted teaching improvement, specifically increased opportunities for students to engage in conceptual thinking.
Date
2020
In publication
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Volume
42
Issue
3
Pages
439-466
Resource type
Resource status/form
en
Scholarship genre
en
IRE Approach/Concept
Coaching
Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR)
Practical Measures
Featured case/project
TN Mathematics Coaching Project
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0162-3737
Grant funding
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Grant number
IES Grant #R305H140112
Citation
Russell, J. L., Correnti, R., Stein, M. K., Thomas, A., Bill, V., & Speranzo, L. (2020). Mathematics Coaching for Conceptual Understanding: Promising Evidence Regarding the Tennessee Math Coaching Model. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 42(3), 439–466. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373720940699
Abbreviation
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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