{"product_id":"professionalizing-teacher-education-performance-assessment-standards-moderation-and-evidence-9780367332136","title":"Professionalizing Teacher Education: Performance Assessment, Standards, Moderation, and Evidence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Claire Wyatt-Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a significant contribution to conversations about teacher quality and graduate readiness for teaching. It presents empirical insights into how a multidisciplinary team of researchers, teacher educators, and policy personnel mobilized for collective change in a standards-driven reform initiative. The insights are research-informed and critically relevant for anyone interested in teacher preparation and credentialing. It gives an account of a bold move to install a collaborative culture of evidence-informed inquiry to professionalize teacher education.　 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe centerpiece of the book is the use of standards and evidence to show the quality of graduates entering the teaching workforce. The book presents, for the first time, a model of online cross-institutional moderation as benchmarking to generate large-scale evidence of the quality of teacher education. The book also introduces a new conceptualization of a feedback loop using summative data for accountability and formative data to inform curriculum review and program renewal. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book offers the insider story of the conceptualization, design, and implementation of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA). It involves going to scale with a large group of Australian universities, government agencies, and schools, and using participatory approaches to advance new thinking about evidence-informed inquiry, cross-institutional moderation, and innovative digital infrastructure. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe discussion of competence assessment, standards, and change processes presented in the book has relevance beyond teacher education to other professions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45241871990935,"sku":"9780367332136","price":13149.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367332136.webp?v=1769230106","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/professionalizing-teacher-education-performance-assessment-standards-moderation-and-evidence-9780367332136","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}