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1955
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Andrew C. Porter is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with significant contributions in Clinical Psychology, Education, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, as well as work related to Information Systems and Management and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics addressed in their research include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Educational Assessment and Improvement, School Choice and Performance, Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, and Poisoning and overdose treatments.

Porter has published recent papers with the following titles and details:

  • Low levels of discriminant validity between self-report measures of self-esteem, shame, and self-criticism: Implications for the measurement of self-evaluation and creation of the Negative Self-Evaluation Scale., 2022, Psychological Assessment
  • Inside school turnaround: What drives success?, 2022, Journal of Educational Change
  • Nonsuicidal Self-injury, Suicide Planning, and Suicide Attempts Among High-risk Adolescents Prior to Psychiatric Hospitalization, 2021, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Average ages of onset and time to transition between self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Retrospective evidence from two developmentally distinct samples, 2024, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Can either using cognitive science principles or improving teacher content knowledge boost student achievement in middle school science?, 2024, Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Catherine R. Glenn
  • Todd M. Bishop
  • Kirsten Lee Hill
  • Laura M. Desimone
  • Tonya Wolford

Porter's research has appeared in various journals, with multiple publications in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, as well as in the Journal of Educational Change, Journal of Affective Disorders, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, and Psychological Assessment.

They have received recognition in the form of the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2015, along with being named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers

    Michael S. Garet;Andrew C Porter;Laura Desimone;Beatrice F Birman

  • Effects of Professional Development on Teachers’ Instruction: Results from a Three-year Longitudinal Study

    Laura M Desimone;Andrew C. Porter;Michael S. Garet;Kwang Suk Yoon

  • Designing Professional Development That Works.

    Beatrice F. Birman;Laura Desimone;Andrew C. Porter;Michael S. Garet

  • Common Core Standards The New U.S. Intended Curriculum

    Andrew Porter;Jennifer McMaken;Jun Hwang;Rui Yang

  • Measuring the Content of Instruction: Uses in Research and Practice

    Andrew C. Porter

  • Synthesis of Research on Good Teaching: Insights from the Work of the Institute for Research on Teaching.

    Andrew C. Porter;Jere Brophy

  • Assessing Learning-Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices

    Ellen Goldring;Andrew Porter;Joseph Murphy;Stephen N. Elliott

  • Upgrading High School Mathematics Instruction: Improving Learning Opportunities for Low-Achieving, Low-Income Youth:

    Adam Gamoran;Andrew C. Porter;John Smithson;Paula A. White

  • Leadership for learning: a research-based model and taxonomy of behaviors1

    Joseph Murphy;Stephen N. Elliott;Ellen Goldring;Andrew C. Porter

  • A Curriculum out of Balance The Case of Elementary School Mathematics

    Andrew Porter

  • Does Professional Development Change Teaching Practice? Results from a Three-Year Study.

    Andrew C. Porter;Michael S. Garet;Laura Desimone;Kwang Suk Yoon

  • Designing Effective Professional Development: Lessons from the Eisenhower Program [and] Technical Appendices.

    Michael S. Garet;Beatrice F. Birman;Andrew C. Porter;Laura Desimone

  • Annual Research Review: A meta-analytic review of worldwide suicide rates in adolescents.

    Catherine R. Glenn;Catherine R. Glenn;Evan M. Kleiman;John Kellerman;Olivia Pollak

  • Learning-Centered Leadership: A Conceptual Foundation.

    Joseph Murphy;Stephen N. Elliott;Ellen Goldring;Andrew C. Porter

  • The Evaluation of Principals: What and How Do States and Urban Districts Assess Leadership?

    Ellen Goldring;Xiu Chen Cravens;Joseph Murphy;Andrew C. Porter

  • Creating a System of School Process Indicators

    Andrew C. Porter

  • Formal and Informal Mentoring: Complementary, Compensatory, or Consistent?

    Laura M. Desimone;Eric D. Hochberg;Andrew C. Porter;Morgan S. Polikoff

  • Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Youth

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  • Defining, Developing, and Using Curriculum Indicators. CPRE Research Report Series.

    Andrew C. Porter;John L. Smithson

  • Do Textbooks Dictate the Content of Mathematics Instruction in Elementary Schools

    Donald J. Freeman;Andrew C. Porter

  • Instructional Alignment as a Measure of Teaching Quality

    Morgan S. Polikoff;Andrew C. Porter

  • Providing Effective Professional Development: Lessons from the Eisenhower Program.

    Andrew C. Porter;Michael S. Garet;Laura M. Desimone;Beatrice F. Birman

  • Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement

    Andrew C. Porter;Adam Gamoran

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Goldring
Ellen Goldring Vanderbilt University
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy Vanderbilt University
Laura M. Desimone
Laura M. Desimone University of Delaware
Stephen N. Elliott
Stephen N. Elliott Arizona State University
Adam Gamoran
Adam Gamoran University of Wisconsin–Madison
William H. Schmidt
William H. Schmidt Michigan State University
Jason A. Grissom
Jason A. Grissom Vanderbilt University
Jere Brophy
Jere Brophy Michigan State University
Robert Glaser
Robert Glaser University of Pittsburgh

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