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Book SynopsisTeacher effectiveness and teacher quality have become the focus of intense international attention and concern. Around the world, governments are modifying existing certification requirements or implementing value-added modeling in order to qualify teachers without planning for the long-term consequences of these actions. The book brings together scholars from multi-disciplinary and international backgrounds to address two critical areas: (1) what existing cross-national measures of teacher effectiveness and teacher quality are most promising, and how can these be aligned to maximize their research potential; and (2) what core constructs of teacher quality or effectiveness are missing, and how can cross-national research help identify these. Identifying both what is used and what is missing in the international and comparative analysis and reform of teacher quality is key to informing evidence-based educational policy formation around teacher quality.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Challenges of Teacher Effectiveness and Quality Worldwide. The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Strategy on Teacher Statistics: Developing Effective Measures of Quantity and Quality in Education. Measuring Teachers’ Professional Learning Activities in International Context. The Influence of Teacher Education on Mathematics Teaching Knowledge: Local Implementation of Global Ideals. No Teacher Is an Island: How Social Networks Shape Teacher Quality. Building and Sustaining a Quality STEM Teacher Workforce: Access to Instructional Leadership and the Interruptions of Educator Turnover. Regimes of Teacher Beliefs from a Comparative and International Perspective. Unpacking Teacher Differences in Didaktik and Curriculum Traditions: Trends from TIMSS 2003, 2007, and 2011. Conceptual Understandings of Democracy and Values as Aspects of Teacher Quality – The Case of Teacher Education in Sweden. Exploring Novice Teachers’ Core Competencies. Teachers’ Responses to Changes in Teacher Evaluation Policy in Korea and the United States. Current Trends in the Framing of Teacher Qualities. Indicators of Quality in Teacher Education: Looking at Features of Teacher Education from an International Perspective. World Culture and Teacher Quality: Consensus, Convergence, and Conflict. Copyright page. Promoting and Sustaining a Quality Teacher Workforce. International Perspectives on Education and Society. Promoting and Sustaining a Quality Teacher Workforce. List of Contributors. About the Authors. Index.
