Assessing Teacher Competency - Five Standards-Based Steps to Valid Measurement Using the Caats Model

Informationen zum Autor Judy R. Wilkerson is an Associate Professor of Research and Assessment at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in measurement and evaluation. As in this book and all of her research, she focuses her efforts with students on providing a highly pragmatic approach, based in theory, with the goal of instilling a commitment in them to assess K-12 learning. Her Ph.D. is in Measurement and Research from the University of South Florida, where she served for 15 years as Director of Program Review, leading College and University efforts in accreditation. Her career has been dedicated to standards-based assessment of programs and teachers, beginning with the creation of an evaluation model for accreditation in 1987, which she implemented in several states. Beginning in 1990 for 15 years, she served as the primary consultant for higher education to the Florida Department of Education, where she drafted the standards for the initial approval of teacher education programs, designed the program approval process, and provided technical assistance to colleges of education in evaluation of teachers and programs statewide. She has consulted nationally on NCATE accreditation and worked with state associations of teacher educators on accreditation related issues. She has also consulted with school districts in Florida on assessment systems for teachers. She was lead designer of the assessment system for the Florida Alternative Certification Program, now used in over 40 of the 68 school districts in the State. Klappentext This comprehensive five-step model for measuring teacher knowledge and skills helps teacher educators and school administrators prepare fair, valid, and reliable assessments of teacher performance. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive five-step model for measuring teacher knowledge and skills helps teacher educators and school administrators prepare fair! valid! and reliable assessments of teacher performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Step-by-Step Guide to the CAATS Model Foreword by Richard Kunkel Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors 1. Expectations and Options for Accountability and Teacher Assessment What This Chapter Is About The Challenge from the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future Title II of the Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998 No Child Left Behind Legislation National Research Council (2001) -- the Committee on Assessment and Teacher Quality What A Few Others Have Said: A Brief Review of the Literature on Testing and Licensure Standards: The Roadmap to Accountability and Scientifically-Based Performance Assessment The Principal Sets of Standards Governing Our Work National and State Pedagogical and Content Standards Unit Accreditation and Operational Standards Technical Standards for Measurement of Teacher Competency Some Major Threats to Validity in Most Current Assessment Systems Conceptual Frameworks: Pulling It All Together NCATE Standards AERA, APA, & NCME INTASC Principles: Where NCATE and AERA, APA, & NCME Standards Converge Making Sense of Conceptual Frameworks Our Conceptual Framework: What We Value Assessment Options Records of Training Completed Tests and Exam Scores Observations of Performance Portfolios of Assessable Artifacts Job-Related Tasks and Work Sample Products K-12 Student Work Samples Wrap-Up Activity #1: What's Happening in Your State and School? Activity #2: Questionnaire for Faculty Views on Competency Assessment Activity #3: Assessment Belief Scale Activity #4: Assessment Options 2. Portfolios - To Be or Not To Be?? That IS the Question! What This Chapter Is About The Portfolio: Panacea or Pandora's Box Portfolios as Certification "Tests": Lessons from St...

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• Autori: William S. Lang, William Steve Lang, Judy R. Wilkerson, Judy R. Lang Wilkerson
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.2007
• EAN: 9781412941198
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-4119-8
• Pagine: 408
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia speciale