What's Your Professional Development IQ?

An effective district leader places a priority on talking with parents and school board members about the relationship between professional development and student learning.

NSDC created the Professional Development IQ test as a tool to stimulate a conversation with parents and/or school board members about what they know about teaching and professional learning. The survey is intended to surface perspectives and assumptions about professional development, not tell parents or school board members that their opinions are wrong.

We have included a citation for every question and answer so you can locate the original material yourself whenever you want to delve more deeply into the information. You may also want to create individual slides or overheads for questions and answers that you anticipate will prove most interesting to your audience.

Download the PD IQ Test as a PDF document here.