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Meeting Overview - NCTAF/Alverno Meeting
Below are the recommended readings to prepare for the meeting:
- Connecting the Assessment of New Teachers to Student Learning and to Teacher Preparation (2004), a commissioned paper written by Patricia A. Wasley and G. William McDiarmid from the College of Education at the University of Washington.
- Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment, essentially explains how expanding knowledge in the scientific fields of human learning and educational measurement can form the foundations of an improved approach to assessment.
- For the meeting, please review Chapter 8 (pages 291-315) -- "Implications and Recommendations for Research, Policy, and Practice". Access that chapter online.
- No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children, NCTAF, January 2003:
- Summary of RAND Analysis on value-added assessment.
- Teacher Education and the Public Trust, by Daniel Fallon, the Education Division Program Chair at Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- The Center for Research, Evaluation & Advancement of Teacher Education (CREATE) explores quality and effectiveness issues related to teacher preparation, retention, and student achievement.
- The Impact of Assessment and Accountability on Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Are There Unintended Consequences?, from the Research Consortium on Teacher Policy.
- The Ohio Teacher Quality Partnership is a comprehensive, longitudinal study of the preparation, in-school support and effectiveness of Ohio teachers. The partnership is identifies how the preparation and development of new teachers affect their success in the classroom as measured by the academic performance of their students.
Additional Resources for the NCTAF/Alverno Meeting:
- After the Test: Closing the Achievement Gaps With Data (2004), by Kiley Walsh Symonds from the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative.
- A Good Teacher in Every Classroom, by Linda Darling-Hammond.
- A New Approach to Performance Assessment (the article is located on page 6 of the Spring 2003 NCATE newsletter), by Phillip Bennett, associate dean of the Teachers College at Emporia State University.
- A New Field of Dreams: The Collegiate Learning Assessment Project, by Roger Benjamin, president, and Marc Chun, research scientist, both of RAND Corporation's Council for Aid to Education.
- How People Learn (1999) and How Students Learn (2005) are available from the National Academies web site.
- For the meeting, please review the introductory chapter of How Students Learn. Access this online.
- Panel Urges New Testing for Teachers, Education Week, May 25, 2005, and other articles on assessment.
- Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and Be Able to Do, by Linda Darling-Hammond and John Bransford, eds.
- Studying Teacher Education: The Report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education, a comprehensive study on teacher education research from the American Educational Research Association.
- Summary of Remarks by Nancy Zimpher, President, University of Cincinnati (These remarks were made at NCTAF's June 2004 Summit on High Quality Teacher Preparation).
- Teachers for a New Era, an initiative designed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- The Annenberg Institute for School Reform has a publication entitled Voices in Urban Education (VUE), which provides cutting-edge analyses of vital issues in urban education. VUE Number 6, Winter 05 has a particular focus on evidence-based practice. See a recommended article:
- The Flexner Report (367 pages, takes approx. 5-10 min. to download) the 1910 landmark study on medical education that has major implications for teacher education/preparation.
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