Allison F. Gilmour

TL;DR: In this paper, the New Teacher Project's The Widget Effect documented the failure of U.S. public school districts to recognize and act on differences in teacher effectiveness, and they revisited these findings b...

TL;DR: It was found that the evaluation reforms provided a common framework and language that helped facilitate principals’ feedback conversations with teachers, however, it was also found that tasking principals with primary responsibility for conducting evaluations resulted in a variety of unintended consequences which undercut the quality of evaluation feedback they provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined if teaching students with disabilities influences general education certified or special education certified teachers' decisions to leave their school, and they fit multilevel logistic regression models to a large state administrative dataset in order to examine if the percentage of SWDs a teacher instructs was associated with turnover, and if this association varied by student disability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have aimed to improve access to grade-level curriculum for students with disabilities (SWD) through improving access to the grade level curriculum for SWD students.

TL;DR: Results from item response theory one-parameter models and multilevel models suggested that different cognitive skills predicted performance across the three reading outcomes, particularly oral reading fluency and free recall.