1st Edition

What’s the Evidence? An Investigation into Teacher Quality

Edited By Rachel White, Alyson Simpson Copyright 2025
158 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book gives an account of a recent study into the nature of teacher quality that moves beyond typical discussions of teacher impact on student results and into what it means to be a teacher. It describes how a range of different research methodologies were combined to design a process for research-informed examinations of teacher quality and the predictive validity of teaching performance... Read more

1. Understanding teacher quality through a teacher identity lens

Rachel White, Jennifer Rowley, Alyson Simpson

2. A methodological overview of the What’s the Evidence study: Theory and practice

Maria A. Karimullah, Wayne Cotton, Louisa Peralta

3. Building understanding of teacher quality: A scoping review

Wayne Cotton, Louisa Peralta, Alyson Simpson, Rachel White, George Harb, Nicole Hart, Graham Hendry, Maria A. Karimullah, Anne Lawson-Jones, Damian Maher, Christine Preston, Jennifer Rowley, Jim Tognolini

4. Confirming the Teacher Quality Construct using a modified Delphi process

Alyson Simpson, Damian Maher, George Harb, Anne Lawson-Jones

5. Using modern measurement theory to test construct validity

Jim Tognolini, Chris Freeman, Alyson Simpson, George Harb

6. What does it mean for early career teachers to be classroom ready?

Rachel White, Alyson Simpson, Damian Maher, George Harb

7. Building a measurement scale for teacher quality to assess the predictive validity of Teaching Performance Assessments

 Jim Tognolini, Janet Clinton

8. Shifting the discourse of teacher quality

Rachel White, Louisa Peralta, Christopher Day

Biography

Rachel White is a senior lecturer at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her discipline is music education, with broader teaching and research interests in gifted education, educational psychology, and the creative arts.

Alyson Simpson is a Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. Specialising in English and Literacy Education, she works with pre-service teachers in Undergraduate and Graduate-entry programs. She is also an international expert in dialogic learning and lead investigator on the What’s the Evidence? project funded by the NSW Department of Education.