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What is High-Quality Instruction?

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Iris R. Weiss, Joan D. Pasley

Educational Leadership (ACSD)

February 2004

MSP Key Features / Challenging Courses and Curricula, Evidence-Based Design and Outcomes
Ed Change & Policy / Evaluation
Prof. Dev. / Curriculum, Teacher PD

"In an effort to assess the quality of mathematics and science instruction in U.S. classrooms, our Horizon Research team spent 18 months observing more than 350 representative lessons and conducting follow-up interviews with teachers to explore their instructional decision making. The assertion by Burstein and colleagues (1995) that educators cannot measure some aspects of instruction without observing teacher-student interactions expresses the need that inspired our Inside the Classroom study (Weiss, Pasley, Smith, Banilower, & Heck, 2003). We documented, analyzed, and assessed lessons according to specific indicators in several areas: the quality of the mathematics and science content, the quality of implementation, and the extent to which the classroom culture facilitated learning (see Sample Indicators, p. 27)."

06/02/2004