China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching?

The results in education for all children (REACH) trust fund at the World Bank has funded a pilot of the classroom assessment scoring system (CLASS) in Guangdong, China to test its usefulness as a tool to assess teaching practices. The pilot was al...

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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951051521526877382/China-Can-Classroom-Observations-Measure-Improvements-in-Teaching
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spelling okr-10986-336202021-05-25T10:54:43Z China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching? World Bank TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS TEACHER INCENTIVES EDUCATION FINANCE EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL RESULTS-BASED FINANCING SECONDARY EDUCATION The results in education for all children (REACH) trust fund at the World Bank has funded a pilot of the classroom assessment scoring system (CLASS) in Guangdong, China to test its usefulness as a tool to assess teaching practices. The pilot was also designed to establish a proof of concept for using classroom observations to measure the impact of teacher training and incentivize training providers within an RBF mechanism. In the pilot, the CLASS tool was used to conduct classroom observations of 36 teachers in Guangdong and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their teaching practices. It sought to test whether this tool could be used to measure teaching practices in the context of China and how to introduce classroom observations into a quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation (QAME) system, as well as exploring how to establish the preconditions for introducing results-based financing (RBF) into China. 2020-04-17T19:54:55Z 2020-04-17T19:54:55Z 2018-02 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951051521526877382/China-Can-Classroom-Observations-Measure-Improvements-in-Teaching http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33620 English RBF Education; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief East Asia and Pacific China
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topic TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
TEACHER INCENTIVES
EDUCATION FINANCE
EDUCATION QUALITY
EDUCATION FOR ALL
RESULTS-BASED FINANCING
SECONDARY EDUCATION
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TEACHER INCENTIVES
EDUCATION FINANCE
EDUCATION QUALITY
EDUCATION FOR ALL
RESULTS-BASED FINANCING
SECONDARY EDUCATION
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description The results in education for all children (REACH) trust fund at the World Bank has funded a pilot of the classroom assessment scoring system (CLASS) in Guangdong, China to test its usefulness as a tool to assess teaching practices. The pilot was also designed to establish a proof of concept for using classroom observations to measure the impact of teacher training and incentivize training providers within an RBF mechanism. In the pilot, the CLASS tool was used to conduct classroom observations of 36 teachers in Guangdong and to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their teaching practices. It sought to test whether this tool could be used to measure teaching practices in the context of China and how to introduce classroom observations into a quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation (QAME) system, as well as exploring how to establish the preconditions for introducing results-based financing (RBF) into China.
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title China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching?
title_short China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching?
title_full China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching?
title_fullStr China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching?
title_full_unstemmed China - Can Classroom Observations Measure Improvements in Teaching?
title_sort china - can classroom observations measure improvements in teaching?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/951051521526877382/China-Can-Classroom-Observations-Measure-Improvements-in-Teaching
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