05089nam 2200637 450 991047893160332120170822145233.01-4522-9752-5(CKB)3710000000456864(EBL)1650897(OCoLC)922907335(SSID)ssj0001530223(PQKBManifestationID)12519405(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530223(PQKBWorkID)11523684(PQKB)11716228(MiAaPQ)EBC1994116(EXLCZ)99371000000045686420150822h20072007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAssessing teacher competency five standards-based steps to valid measurement using the CAATS model /Judy R. Wilkerson, William Steven Lang ; foreword by Richard C. Kunkel ; acquisitions editor Faye Zucker ; cover designer Audrey SnodgrassThousand Oaks, California :Corwin Press,2007.©20071 online resource (408 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4129-4119-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes""; ""A Step-by-Step Guide to Competency Assessment Aligned with Teacher Standardsâ€?The CAATS Model for Improved Teacher Assessment""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Chapter 1 - Expectations and Options for Accountability and Teacher Assessment""; ""The Challenge f rom the National Commission on Teaching and Americaâ€?s Future""; ""Title II of the Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998""; ""No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Legislation""""National Research Councilâ€?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 Road Map 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""; ""INTASC Principles: Where NCATE and AERA, APA, and 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""; ""Kâ€?12 Student Work Samples""; ""Wrap-Up""; ""Activity #1.1: Whatâ€?s Happening in Your State and School?""""Activity #1.2: Questionnaire for Faculty Views on Competency Assessment""""Activity #1.3: Assessment Belief Scaleâ€?Beliefs about Assessment""; ""Activity #1.4: Assessment Options""; ""Chapter 2 - Portfoliosâ€?To Be or Not to Be? That is the Question!""; ""The Portfolio: Panacea or Pandoraâ€?s Box?""; ""Portfolios as Certification “Testsâ€?: Lessons from Standards and History""; ""Assessment Illiteracy, Paradigm Shifts, and Conflicting Purposes""; ""The Conflict of Formative vs. Summative Assessment""; ""The Conflict of Program Approval vs. Accreditation""""The Conflict of Regulatory vs. Professional Perspectives""""The Conflict of Freedom vs. Accountability""; ""The Conflict of Constructivism vs. Positivism""; ""Recommendations for Use of Portfolios in Accountability Contexts""; ""Ten Recommendations for Assessment System Design""; ""A Recommended, Standards-Based Model""; ""Overview of Competency Assessments Aligned with Teacher Standards (CAATS) Model""; ""CAATS Step 1: Define Purpose, Use, Propositions, Content, and Other Contextual Factors""; ""CAATS Step 2: Develop a Valid Sampling Plan""""CAATS Step 3: Create or Update Tasks Aligned with Standards and Consistent with the Sampling Plan""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.TeachersCertificationUnited StatesTeacher effectivenessUnited StatesElectronic books.TeachersCertificationTeacher effectiveness379.157Wilkerson Judy R.982414Lang William StevenKunkel Richard C.Zucker FayeSnodgrass AudreyMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910478931603321Assessing teacher competency2242236UNINA