TY - JOUR

T1 - Who participates in which type of teacher professional development?

T2 - Identifying and describing clusters of teachers

AU - Besser, Michael

AU - Leiß, Dominik

AU - Blum, Werner

PY - 2020/6/25

Y1 - 2020/6/25

N2 - Teacher professional development (TPD) courses can support teachers in building up pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and in improving the quality of teaching. Therefore, having teachers participate in TPD is of special interest for educational policy. Unfortunately, knowledge about the relation between teachers’ PCK and teachers’ attendance in TPD is unclear. That’s why the current study empirically contrasts teachers (N = 67, German middle-school classes) which do and do not take part in TPD courses exemplarily dealing with formative assessment (FA) in mathematics. Hierarchical cluster analysis was used to identify four clusters of teachers (based on prior personal characteristics concerning formative assessment). Describing these clusters, it can be stated that there exists a cluster of teachers with critical values on all personal characteristics. These teachers mainly do not take part in TPD dealing with FA although they have little PCK concerning FA. Implications for further research and TPD are discussed.

AB - Teacher professional development (TPD) courses can support teachers in building up pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and in improving the quality of teaching. Therefore, having teachers participate in TPD is of special interest for educational policy. Unfortunately, knowledge about the relation between teachers’ PCK and teachers’ attendance in TPD is unclear. That’s why the current study empirically contrasts teachers (N = 67, German middle-school classes) which do and do not take part in TPD courses exemplarily dealing with formative assessment (FA) in mathematics. Hierarchical cluster analysis was used to identify four clusters of teachers (based on prior personal characteristics concerning formative assessment). Describing these clusters, it can be stated that there exists a cluster of teachers with critical values on all personal characteristics. These teachers mainly do not take part in TPD dealing with FA although they have little PCK concerning FA. Implications for further research and TPD are discussed.

KW - Empirical education research

KW - Didactics of Mathematics

KW - Teacher professional development

KW - clusters of teachers

KW - formative assessment

KW - pedagogical content knowledge

KW - teacher expertise

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087555335&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13664530.2020.1761872

DO - 10.1080/13664530.2020.1761872

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 24

SP - 293

EP - 314

JO - Teacher Development

JF - Teacher Development

SN - 1366-4530

IS - 3

ER -