About

Pam Grossman is an Emerita Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include assessment, testing and measurement, professional development, and teachers and teaching. She has contributed to the field through her work on instructional improvement, classroom observation scores, and the relationship between assessment and teacher effectiveness. Grossman is recognized for her scholarly impact and has been involved in various research projects related to educational assessment and teacher development.

Research topics

• Mathematics education
• Psychology
• Pedagogy
• Sociology
• Medical education

Selected publications

• <i>Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships</i>by Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies

  Journal of School Choice · 2012-07-01 · 5 citations

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  Beyond the Bake Sale is based upon qualitative studies and anecdotal evidence from national school districts. It is clear, concise, and an easy to use how-to book, giving the reader tangible ideas ...

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• Recruiting Effective Math Teachers: Evidence From New York City

  American Educational Research Journal · 2012-02-11 · 64 citations

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  For well over a decade school districts across the United States have struggled to recruit and retain effective mathematics teachers. In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, have developed alternative certification programs with a math immersion component to recruit otherwise well-qualified candidates who do not have undergraduate majors in math. This article examines the qualifications, student achievement gains, and retention of Math Immersion teachers in New York City compared to New York City mathematics teachers who began their careers through other pathways.

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• The effectiveness and retention of teachers with prior career experience

  Economics of Education Review · 2011-09-10 · 42 citations

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• Learning from multiple routes: The variation in teacher preparation pathways can propel our understanding of how best to prepare teachers

  Educational leadership · 2010-01-01 · 6 citations

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• "Who Leaves?" Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement. Working Paper 23.

  2009-03-01 · 35 citations

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• Research on Pedagogical Approaches in Teacher Education

  2009-09-10 · 266 citations

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  Most reports about teacher education focus more on curricular issues, such as what prospective teachers should learn, or on structural issues, such as the uses of professional development schools or the length of programs, than on issues of instruction. Neither the research literature nor the reform reports of the 1980s (Carnegie Forumon Education and the Economy, 1986; Holmes Group, 1986) had much to say about how prospective teachers should be taught.1 Yet in teacher education, attention to pedagogy is critical; how one teaches is part and parcel of what one teaches (Loughran & Russell, 1997). In the professional preparation of teachers, themedium is themessage. This chapter summarizes the research on how we teach prospective teachers and on how various approaches used by teacher educators might affect what teachers learn about teaching, including what they come to know or believe about teaching, as well as how they engage in the practice of teaching itself.

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• Who Leaves?: Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

  PsycEXTRA Dataset · 2009-01-01 · 63 citations

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  Almost a quarter of entering public-school teachers leave teaching within their first three years.High attrition would be particularly problematic if those leaving were the more able teachers.The goal of this paper is estimate the extent to which there is differential attrition based on teachers' value-added to student achievement.Using data for New York City schools from 2000-2005, we find that first-year teachers whom we identify as less effective at improving student test scores have higher attrition rates than do more effective teachers in both low-achieving and high-achieving schools.The first-year differences are meaningful in size; however, the pattern is not consistent for teachers in their second and third years.For teachers leaving low-performing schools, the more effective transfers tend to move to higher achieving schools, while less effective transfers stay in lower-performing schools, likely exacerbating the differences across students in the opportunities they have to learn.

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• Measuring Effect Sizes: The Effect of Measurement Error. Working Paper 19.

  2008-06-01 · 7 citations

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• Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2008-09-01 · 78 citations

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  There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers.Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality teacher preparation is the most promising approach.Most agree, however, that we lack a strong research basis for understanding how to prepare teachers.This paper is one of the first to estimate the effects of features of teachers' preparation on teachers' value-added to student test score performance in math and English Language Arts.Our results indicate variation across preparation programs in the average effectiveness of the teachers they are supplying to New York City schools.In particular, preparation directly linked to practice appears to benefit teachers in their first year.

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• Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement. Working Paper 20.

  2008-08-01 · 10 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Hamilton Lankford

  36 shared

• Susanna Loeb

  36 shared

• James Wyckoff

  University of Virginia

  36 shared

• Donald Boyd

  36 shared

• Jan N. Hughes

  Texas A&M University

  5 shared

• Timothy A. Cavell

  University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

  4 shared

• Clarissa A. Thompson

  Kent State University

  3 shared

• Sam Wineburg

  3 shared