Developing Measures of Content Knowledge for Teaching Reading
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The measures development work is being conducted as part of the Study of Instructional Improvement. The research group includes, Geoffrey Phelps, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Heather C. Hill, and Stephen Schilling. This work is supported by NSF grant REC-9979873, by a subcontract to CPRE on Department of Education (DOE), Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) award #R308A960003, by University of California Office of the President award #8047PCE186, and by the Atlantic Philanthropies. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and not of the funding agencies. The authors acknowledge Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Joshua Glazer, Heather Hill, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
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