DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34346.v4
title: Measures of Effective Teaching: 3c - Base Data: Item-Level Observational Scores, 2009-2011
title: MET 3c - Item-Level Observational Scores, 2009-2011
title: Version 4

description: The MET project is based on two premises: First, a teacher's evaluation should depend to a significant extent on his/her students' achievement gains; second, any additional components of the evaluation (e.g., classroom observations) should be valid predictors of student achievement gain.
Student achievement was measured in two ways -- through existing state assessments, designed to assess student progress on the state curriculum for accountability purposes, and supplemental assessments, designed to assess higher-order conceptual understanding.
Panoramic digital video of classroom sessions were taken of participating teachers and students, teachers submitted commentary on their lessons (e.g., specifying the learning objective) and then trained raters scored the lesson based on classroom observation protocols using the following five observation protocols:

Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), developed by Robert Pianta, University of Virginia; 
Framework for Teaching (FFT), developed by Charlotte Danielson; 
Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI), developed by Heather Hill, Harvard University, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan; 
Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations (PLATO), developed by Pam Grossman, Stanford University; 
Quality Science Teaching (QST) Instrument, developed by Raymond Pecheone, Stanford University; 
A subset of the videos also are being scored using an observational protocol developed by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) and using the UTeach Observational Protocol (UTOP), developed by the UTeach Preparation Program.
Close to 3,000 teacher volunteers from across the following 6, predominantly urban, school districts participated in the MET project: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Dallas Independent School District, Denver Public Schools, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Memphis City Schools, and the New York City Department of Education. Participants teach math and English language arts (ELA) in grades 4-8, Algebra I, grade 9 English, and high school biology.
The Item-Level Observational Scores Release
 This release consists of data files for the five observational protocols listed (CLASS, FFT, MQI, PLATO, and QST) and the UTOP subset. Also included are rater comment files explaining rater scores on the CLASS instrument and master coded scores for the CLASS, FFT, PLATO, MQI and QST observational measures.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of 
				disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major 
				statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to 
				these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
			   		Performed consistency checks.; Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
					Classroom observational measures include: Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), developed at the University of Virginia; The Framework for Teaching (FFT), developed by Charlotte Danielson; Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI), developed at the University of Michigan; Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observation (PLATO), developed at Stanford University; Quality of Science Teaching (QST), developed by Raymond Pecheone, Stanford University; UTeach Observational Protocol (UTOP), developed by the UTeach Preparation Program;
description: Response Rates: 
					2,746 teachers began the year 1 of the MET project, 1,868 completed year 2 of the MET project.
description: Datasets: 
					
						DS0: Study-Level Files
						DS1: Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) - Year 1
						DS2: Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) - Year 2
						DS3: Framework for Teaching (FFT) - Year 1
						DS4: Framework for Teaching (FFT) - Year 2
						DS5: Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI) - Year 1
						DS6: Mathematical Quality of Instruction (MQI) - Year 2
						DS7: Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations (PLATO) - Year 1
						DS8: Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations (PLATO) - Year 2
						DS9: Quality Science Teaching (QST) - Year 1
						DS10: Quality Science Teaching (QST) - Year 2
						DS11: UTeach Observational Protocol (UTOP)
						DS12: Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) - Year 1 - Comments
						DS13: Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) - Year 2 - Comments
description: Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project Series
description: coded video observation
description: cognitive assessment test
description: Teachers and students within the six participating school districts.
				   		Smallest Geographic Unit: School Districts