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Tensions in Teacher Preparation: Accountability, Assessment, and Accreditation
Lynette B. Erickson
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Description for Tensions in Teacher Preparation: Accountability, Assessment, and Accreditation
Paperback. Addresses the challenges of meeting national accreditation requirements, including designing assessment instruments and making data-driven decisions. This book explores and shares tensions created as teacher education programs experience changes because of accountability requirements related to the accreditation process. Editor(s): Erickson, Lynnette B.; Wentworth, Nancy. Series Editor(s): Pinnegar, Stefinee E. Series: Advances in Research on Teaching. Num Pages: 344 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JNKH1; JNMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Current accreditation practices require that teacher education institutions in the United States not only create programs that enact research-based best practices but that they also document their existence and efficacy in preparing teachers. "Tensions in Teacher Preparation: Accountability, Assessment, and Accreditation" addresses the challenges of meeting national accreditation requirements, including designing assessment instruments and making data-driven decisions. The process of establishing and implementing accountability creates tensions in faculty and institutions. Faculty must give up valued content and instructional styles in order to align course objectives and assessment instruments across the program. Institutions with multiple licensure programs must make adjustments in ... Read more
Current accreditation practices require that teacher education institutions in the United States not only create programs that enact research-based best practices but that they also document their existence and efficacy in preparing teachers. "Tensions in Teacher Preparation: Accountability, Assessment, and Accreditation" addresses the challenges of meeting national accreditation requirements, including designing assessment instruments and making data-driven decisions. The process of establishing and implementing accountability creates tensions in faculty and institutions. Faculty must give up valued content and instructional styles in order to align course objectives and assessment instruments across the program. Institutions with multiple licensure programs must make adjustments in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Research on Teaching
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781901496
SKU
V9781781901496
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