What's the Evidence?

An Investigation into Teacher Quality
Herausgeber: White, Rachel; Simpson, Alyson

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book gives an account of a recent study into the nature of teacher quality that moves beyond typical discussions of teacher impact on student results and into what it means to be a teacher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781032893952
• ISBN-10: 1032893958
• Artikelnr.: 72700463

Autorenporträt

Rachel White is a senior lecturer at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her discipline is music education, with broader teaching and research interests in gifted education, educational psychology, and the creative arts. Alyson Simpson is a Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. Specialising in English and Literacy Education, she works with pre-service teachers in Undergraduate and Graduate-entry programs. She is also an international expert in dialogic learning and lead investigator on the What's the Evidence? project funded by the NSW Department of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding teacher quality through a teacher identity lens
2. A methodological overview of the What's the Evidence study: Theory and
practice
3. Building understanding of teacher quality: A scoping review
4. Confirming the Teacher Quality Construct using a modified Delphi process
5. Using modern measurement theory to test construct validity
6. What does it mean for early career teachers to be classroom ready?
7. Building a measurement scale for teacher quality to assess the
predictive validity of Teaching Performance Assessments
8. Shifting the discourse of teacher quality