Building understanding of teacher quality: a scoping review

This chapter describes a scoping review used to refine a construct of teacher quality, by identifying the research informed indicators of teacher quality. The review identified 1004 relevant articles, published between 2011 and 2021. An analysis of the publications identified 3370 data points of teacher quality. Building on an initial construct of teacher quality and content analysis, indicators were coded into seven categories containing 50 indicators of teacher quality. A total of 37 indicators support the proposed Teacher Quality Construct, with the 13 remaining indicators being outside the scope of the study. The review underpins the importance of research that brings together disparate views to build and validate a commonly understood construct of teacher quality. By identifying indicators of teacher quality, our study can support teacher educators around the world to improve the validity of teacher assessment models at a time when teachers are consistently under critique.