Professor of Education
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Background
John Tyler received a BS in mathematics and physics from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Following college he took over the family farming operation in West Texas for the next fourteen years. He combined his last years of farming with a position teaching middle school mathematics, a move that eventually led to doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he focused on studies in the economics of education.
Tyler's recent research focuses on teacher evaluation and measures of teacher effectiveness, examinations of how teachers use data to inform and improve their practice, and in general, impact evaluation in education. Past research has examined dropout issues, the economic returns to the GED credential, the returns to skills for low educated individuals, and the impact of correctional education on post-release labor market outcomes of criminal justice offenders.
Interests
Current Projects
- Designing, Implementing, and Validating the Next Generation of Teacher Evaluations
- The Effect of Evaluation on Teacher Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers
- How Teachers Use Data to Inform and Improve Their Practice
- Study of ARIS Usage and Lessons from the ARIS-LOCAL Pilot Phase
- Teacher Evaluation and Measures of Teacher Effectiveness