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Assessing Teacher EducationThe Usefulness of Multiple Measures for Assessing Program OutcomesStanford University Productive strategies for evaluating outcomes are becoming increasingly important for the improvement, and even the survival, of teacher education. This article describes a set of research and assessment strategies used to evaluate program outcomes in the Stanford Teacher Education Program during a period of program redesign over the past 5 years. These include perceptual data on what candidates feel they have learned in the program (through surveys and interviews) as well as independent measures of what they have learned (data from pretests and posttests, performance assessments, work samples, employers surveys, and observations of practice). The article discusses the possibilities and limits of different tools for evaluating teachers and teacher education and describes future plans for assessing beginning teachers performance in teacher education, their practices in the initial years of teaching, and their pupils learning.
Key Words: teacher education reform teacher education
Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 57, No. 2,
120-138 (2006) This article has been cited by other articles:
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