Peter Youngs

Professor

University of Virginia

Peter Youngs is professor and chair of the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education at University of Virginia. His research interests focus on how teacher preparation, induction, professional development, and evaluation policies are associated with beginning teachers’ instruction, commitment, and retention. He is currently studying the use of neural networks to automatically classify instructional activities in video recordings of elementary lessons and provide coaching and feedback to teachers on their instruction. He served as co-editor for American Educational Research Journal from 2019 through 2024.