Professionalizing Teacher Education: Performance Assessment, Standards, Moderation, and Evidence

This book provides empirical insights into how a multidisciplinary team of researchers, teacher educators, and policy personnel mobilized for collective change in a standards-driven reform initiative. It presents a model of online cross-institutional moderation as benchmarking to generate large-scale evidence of the quality of teacher education and introduces a new conceptualization of a feedback loop using summative and formative data. The discussion of competence assessment, standards, and change processes has relevance beyond teacher education to other professions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 254 pages
Publication date: 10 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book makes a substantial contribution to the ongoing discussions surrounding teacher quality and graduate readiness for teaching. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it presents empirical insights into how a team of researchers, teacher educators, and policy personnel collaborated to drive collective change in a standards-driven reform initiative. The insights offered are grounded in rigorous research and hold significant value for anyone interested in teacher preparation and credentialing. The book offers an account of a bold initiative to establish a collaborative culture of evidence-informed inquiry within teacher education.

At the heart of the book lies the utilization of standards and evidence to assess the quality of graduates entering the teaching profession. It presents, for the first time, a model of online cross-institutional moderation as a benchmarking approach to generate substantial evidence of the quality of teacher education on a large scale. Additionally, the book introduces a novel conceptualization of a feedback loop, employing summative data for accountability and formative data to inform curriculum review and program renewal.

This book provides a firsthand account of the conceptualization, design, and implementation of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA). It involves collaborating with a large group of Australian universities, government agencies, and schools, employing participatory approaches to foster innovative thinking about evidence-informed inquiry, cross-institutional moderation, and digital infrastructure. The discussions on competence assessment, standards, and change processes presented in the book have broader implications beyond teacher education, extending to other professions.

Overall, this book is a valuable resource for educators, policymakers, and researchers seeking to enhance the quality of teacher education and improve graduate readiness for teaching. Its insights and methodologies offer valuable lessons for practitioners and policymakers alike, as they work towards improving educational outcomes and preparing the next generation of educators for success.

Weight: 510g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367332129