National Survey of High School Math Teachers

Primary Investigators

Yasmiyn Irizarry and Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin

Research Team: Chandel Burgess (UT Austin); Ally Cameron (Duke)

The National Survey of High School Math Teachers, piloted in the summer of 2021, is the first large-scale survey focusing on mathematics teachers’ 1) racial beliefs, 2) views about minoritized learners and their families, and 3) inclusive teaching practices. This survey was developed using qual-to-quant translation, an iterative approach to survey design rooted in the principles of QuantCrit. The survey includes questions from existing surveys, as well as original questions informed by existing literature, focus group interviews with mathematics teachers, and regular working group meetings. Teachers for the national pilot were recruited using a split sample design. Over 220 teachers participated in the survey: 58% were part of a national multistage, stratified random sample and 42% were from a national convenience sample recruited through professional associations listservs and social media.