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University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Porter"s current work centers on the VAL-Education project, a research-based evaluation tool that measures the effectiveness of school leaders by providing a detailed assessment of a principal"s performance funded by the United States Department of Education/IES. Porter also works on two projects funded by the National Science Foundation that focus on the effects of teacher professional development on improving teaching and learning. Porter is the co-author of 42 book chapters, 70 scholarly articles, dozens of technical reports, and one book From 1967-1988, Porter was a faculty member at Michigan State University, where he co-directed the Institute for Research on Teaching and served as associate dean for Research and Graduate Study.
In 1988 Porter became the Anderson-Bascon professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
In 2003, he joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University and served as the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations in the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and served as the director of Vanderbilt"s Learning Sciences Institute. Porter holds a Bachelor of Surgery in education from Indiana State University (1963) and an Master of Surgery (1965) and Doctor of Philosophy (1967) in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Porter is an educational psychologist and psychometrician who has made significant contributions to education policy and has published widely on educational assessment and accountability, teacher decisions on content and how curriculum policy effects those decisions, opportunities for students to learn and achievement indicators, measuring content and standards alignment, teacher professional development, educational research methodology, and leadership assessment.
Membership
Porter is a former president of the American Educational Research Association (2001) and was elected a member of the National Academy of Education in 1994, where he has served as vice president since 2005. He is a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies and is a present or past member of a dozen scholarly editorial and advisory boards, including American Educational Researcher, Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, and the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
