Promoting and sustaining a quality teacher workforce

• Other Authors: LeTendre, Gerald K., Wiseman, Alexander W., 1968-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2015.
• Series: International perspectives on education and society ; v. 27.
• Subjects: Education > Teaching Methods & Materials > General.; Education > General.; Teaching skills & techniques.; Educational strategies & policy.; Education.; Teacher effectiveness.; Effective teaching.; Comparative education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781784410162 (electronic bk.) :
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 515 p.)
• Item Description: Includes index.
• ISSN: 1479-3679

Teacher effectiveness and teacher quality have become the focus of intense international attention and concern. Around the world, governments are modifying existing certification requirements or implementing value-added modeling in order to qualify teachers without planning for the long-term consequences of these actions. The book brings together scholars from multi-disciplinary and international backgrounds to address two critical areas: (1) what existing cross-national measures of teacher effectiveness and teacher quality are most promising, and how can these be aligned to maximize their research potential; and (2) what core constructs of teacher quality or effectiveness are missing, and how can cross-national research help identify these. Identifying both what is used and what is missing in the international and comparative analysis and reform of teacher quality is key to informing evidence-based educational policy formation around teacher quality.