Stanford School of Education Cubberley Lecture Series Presents: Professor Juergen Baumert, Director of Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
Professor Juergen Baumert will address the question of how teachers' professional competence can be conceptualized and measured and how, theoretically, teacher competence relates to instruction and student learning. To test these ideas, he will trace the progress made by students over the course of a school year in classes taught by mathematics teachers varying in competence using data from a longitudinal study of the professional knowledge of secondary school mathematics teachers conducted under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
A Q&A session and reception will immediately follow the lecture.
Juergen Baumert is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Professor of Education at the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After serving as Director of the Leibniz Institute for Science Education at the University of Kiel for several years, he became a fellow of the Max Planck Society and director of the Berlin Institute for Human Development in 1996. His fields of research are learning and instruction, cognitive and motivational development in adolescence and young adulthood, large scale-assessment, and cross-national comparisons. Juergen Baumert has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and is a member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina." He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
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