Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms [electronic resource] : The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools / edited by Julie H. Carter, Hilary A. Lochte.

Contributor(s): Carter, Julie H [editor.] | Lochte, Hilary A [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: XI, 217 p. 7 illus. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781137560001Subject(s): Education | Teaching | Assessment | Education | Teaching and Teacher Education | Assessment, Testing and EvaluationAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 370.711 LOC classification: LB1024.2-1050.75LB1705-2286Online resources: e-book Full-text access In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher performance exams has raised concerns about the influence of corporate interests in teacher education, the objectivity of nationalized teaching standards, and ultimately the overarching political and economic interests shaping the process, format, and nature of assessment itself. Through an arc of scholarship from various perspectives, this book explores a range of questions about the goals and interests at work in the roll out of the edTPA assessment and gives voice to those most affected by these policy changes, teacher educators, and teacher education students.

This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher performance exams has raised concerns about the influence of corporate interests in teacher education, the objectivity of nationalized teaching standards, and ultimately the overarching political and economic interests shaping the process, format, and nature of assessment itself. Through an arc of scholarship from various perspectives, this book explores a range of questions about the goals and interests at work in the roll out of the edTPA assessment and gives voice to those most affected by these policy changes, teacher educators, and teacher education students.

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