Implementing and analyzing performance assessments in teacher education

Teacher education has long relied on locally-developed assessments that lack reliability and validity. Rigorous performance-based assessments for preservice teachers have been advanced as one possible way to ensure that all students receive instruction from a high-quality teacher. Recently, performa...

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Other Authors Many, Joyce (Editor), Bhatnagar, Ruchi (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2018.
SeriesContemporary issues in accreditation, assessment, and program evaluation research in educator preparation.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608348
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-121-6
Physical Description1 online resource (272 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • The evolution of teacher performance assessments as a measure of accountability / Carla L. Tanguay
  • From isolation to a community of practice : redefining the relationship of faculty and adjunct university supervisors during the implementation of edTPA / Sharilyn C. Steadman and Ellen E. Dobson
  • Faculty investment in student success : a four-year investigation of edTPA implementation / Gaoyin Qian, Harriet Fayne, and Leslie Lieman
  • Mandates revisited : one coordinator's story of cultivating collegiality and inquiry through a professional learning community / Holley M. Roberts
  • The power of supports to improve edTPA outcomes / Kathleen Fabrikant, Cynthia Bolton, Cindy S. York, and Angie Hodge
  • Cognitively guided instruction as a means of preparing elementary teacher candidates for edTPA mathematics assessment task / Susan Swars Auslander, Stephanie Z. Smith, and Marvin E. Smith
  • Not just for preservice teachers : edTPA as a tool for practicing teachers and induction support / John Seelke and Xiaoyang Gong
  • Forcing me to reflect : preservice and novice teachers? : reflective thinking in varied school contexts / Dianna Gahlsdorf Terrell, Kathryn McCurdy, Megan L. Birch, Thomas H. Schram, and Page Tompkins
  • State education agency use of teacher candidate performance assessments : a case study of the implementation of a statewide portfolio-based assessment system in Kansas / Stephen J. Meyer, Emma V. Espel, and Nikkolas J. Nelson
  • Using the concerns-based adoption model to support edTPA coordinators and faculty during the implementation process / Joyce E. Many, Shaneeka Favors-Welch, Karen Kurz, Tamra Ogletree and Clarice Thomas.