Peter Youngs
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 feedback to teachers. He served as co-editor for the American Educational Research Journal from 2019 through 2024.