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- Title: Guest Editors' Introduction
- Author : Issues in Teacher Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
Description
This special issue of Issues in Teacher Education presents research and diverse perspectives on the use of teaching performance assessment in teacher credentialing programs. In response to concerns about traditional measures of teachers' competency for licensing decisions, many states have implemented teaching performance assessments as a requirement for licensure. These assessments typically include a series of tasks in which teacher candidates are asked to document their teaching effectiveness by demonstrating that they are able to do the following: address the needs of all students, including English learners and students with special needs; plan for instruction and assessment; analyze the impact of instruction on student learning; and reflect upon the success of an instructional unit. As California teacher educators, we three guest editors have had significant responsibility for the design and implementation of teaching performance assessment and its ramifications at our own universities. As a result, we were quite invested in the selection of a range of articles that would represent multiple views of the strengths, drawbacks, opportunities, and consequences associated with large-scale assessment of teacher candidates. We wanted articles that examined multiple performance assessments; explored both large-scale issues as well as individual voices of candidates, teacher educators, and assessors; and considered special interest groups, including specific content areas and populations of students. We feel that the following seven articles demonstrate this complexity.