TY  - SER
AU  - Mancenido, Zid
TI  - Impact Evaluations of Teacher Preparation Practices: Challenges and Opportunities for More Rigorous Research
SN  - 0034-6543
PB  - Review of Educational Research
KW  -  Impact Evaluation
KW  -  Literature Review
KW  -  Teacher Assessment
KW  -  Teacher Education
KW  -  Teacher Education/development
KW  - Research Methodology
N2  - Many teacher education researchers have expressed concerns about the lack of rigorous impact evaluations of teacher preparation practices. I summarize these various concerns as they relate to issues of internal validity, measurement, and external validity. I then assess the prevalence of these issues by reviewing 166 impact evaluations of teacher preparation practices published in peer-reviewed journals between 2002 2019. Although I find that very few studies address issues of internal validity, measurement, and external validity, I highlight some innovative approaches and present a checklist of considerations to assist future researchers in designing more rigorous impact evaluations
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543231174413
ER  -