Brent Duckor, PhD

Brent Duckor

Professor, Teacher Education

Brent Duckor is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education. He taught history, economics, and civics in the Senior Institute at Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem, NYC. He later received his Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods and Evaluation at the University of California, Berkeley. Brent specializes in educational measurement, testing, and assessment. He has served on state and national boards providing educational assessment and measurement expertise to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the California Department of Education, and the College and Career Readiness Evaluation Consortium in Washington, D.C. His most recent scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Educational Measurement, Teachers College Record, Journal of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Phi Delta Kappan. His book,  (ASCD, 2017) with Dr. Carrie Holmberg, has been presented to audiences across the U.S. and abroad in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia.

Education

  • Ph.D., Education, Quantitative Methods and Evaluation, U.C. Berkeley
  • M.A., Education, Quantitative Methods and Evaluation, U.C. Berkeley
  • M.A., International Affairs, Columbia University
  • B.A., Politics, U.C. Santa Cruz

Recent Publications

  • Duckor, B. & Holmberg, C. (2019/2020). 7 High-leverage formative assessment moves to support ELLs. Educational Leadership, 77(4), 46-52.

  • Duckor, B. & Holmberg, C. (2019). Exploring how to model formative assessment trajectories of posing鈥恜ausing鈥恜robing practices: Toward a teacher learning progressions framework for the study of novice teachers. Journal of Educational Measurement. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/jedm.12239

  • Duckor, B., & Holmberg, C. (June, 2017). . Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

  • Duckor, B., Draney, K., & Wilson, M. (2017). Assessing assessment literacy: An item response modeling approach for teacher educators. Pensamiento Educativo: Journal of Latin American Educational Research, 54(2), 1-25.

  • Duckor, B., Holmberg, C., & Rossi-Becker, J. (2017). Making moves: Formative assessment in mathematics. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 22(6), 334-342.

  • Duckor, B. (2017, April). Got grit? Maybe... Phi Delta Kappan, 98(7), 61-66.

Recent Presentations

  • Duckor, B., & Stark, P. (2021, March). . Invited talk at the BEAR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, California.
  • Duckor, B., Holmberg, C., Zhang, Y. (2020, March). . Invited talk at the BEAR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, California.
  • Duckor, B. (2020, February). Supporting beginning teachers in formative assessment. Invited keynote speaker at the Formative Assessment for Student and Teachers State Collaborative for the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Hodi, A., & Duckor, B. (2019, October). . Invited talk at the BEAR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, California.
  • Duckor, B., Holmberg, C., & Wilson, M. (2019, September), On teaching learning progressions: One framework, two cases, many pathways for research. Poster session presentation at National Council of Measurement in Education鈥檚 3rd Annual Special Conference on Classroom Assessment, Boulder, CO.

  • Duckor, B., Holmberg, C., Patthoff, A., & Barnes, N. (2019, September). A teacher learning progressions approach to understanding and improving teachers鈥� formative assessment practice. In B. Duckor (Chair), A teacher learning progressions approach to understanding and improving teachers鈥� formative feedback with English learners. Symposium presented at National Council of Measurement in Education鈥檚 3rd Annual Special Conference on Classroom Assessment, Boulder, CO.

  • Duckor, B., Buckner, A., & Zhang, Y. (April, 2019). Understanding California superintendents鈥� beliefs about school climate data and its uses: A multidimensional modeling approach. Invited talk at the BEAR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, California.

Noteworthy Grants and Awards

  • Principal Investigator, Research Scholarship and Creativity Grant (RSCA). Title of the Project: Making formative feedback moves: High-leverage practices that make a difference. Sponsor: San Jos茅 State University.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, California Teacher Education Research and Improvement Network (CTERIN). Title of the Project: . Sponsor: University of California.
  • 2019-2020 无忧短视频 Central RSCA Award for upcoming book on the role of formative feedback in advancing student learning in extraordinary times (Corwin)

Online Resources

  •   presentations at Stanford Policy Analysis for California Education conference (YouTube video)
  • on Vrain Waves podcast
  • webinar hosted by ASCD
  • presentation at Lurie College of Education K-12 Online Teaching Academy (YouTube video)
  • webinar in collaboration with the CSU Center for Closing the Opportunity Gap (CCOG) (YouTube video)

Areas of Research Interest

  • Classroom assessment
  • Educational measurement
  • Formative assessment
  • Item response theory
  • Rasch models
  • Teacher learning progressions
  • Validation studies

Recommended Reading

  • by the National Research Council
  • by American Psychological Association, National Council on Measurement in Education, Joint Committee on Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
  • by Linda Darling-Hammond

Personality Playlist

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