New Book: Professionalizing Teacher Education: Performance assessment, standards, moderation and evidence

A new book titled, ‘Professionalizing Teacher Education: Performance Assessment, Standards, Moderation and Evidence’, was released on 30 June 2022 by Routledge. The book provides a significant contribution to conversations about teacher quality and graduate readiness for teaching. It presents empirical insights into how a multidisciplinary team of researchers, teacher educators, and policy personnel mobilized for collective change in a standards-driven reform initiative.

Reviews:

“Professionalizing Teacher Education: Performance Assessment, Standards, Moderation, and Evidence provides original, informative and significant insights into the black box of the design, development, validation, standard setting and implementation of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment in Australia (GTPA®), as well as an account of the innovative and distinctive approach to cross-institutional standards-referenced moderation adopted. As such, this book will be necessary reading for all those interested in authentic assessment practices, in intelligent accountability, in teacher education reform and in improving the status and professionalism of both teacher education and teaching.” Professor Bob Lingard PhD FASSA FAcSS, Australian Catholic University

“This is an important book, providing an empirical response to the perennial question: ‘What’s good enough for beginning teachers, and how would you know?’ It draws substantially on a major national standard setting, benchmarking, and moderation reform initiative. This is an impressive contribution to the international debate, theoretically grounded, and empirically sophisticated.”

Bill Louden AM, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Western Australia

Authors:

• Claire Wyatt-Smith (PhD) – Professor of Educational Assessment and Measurement and Director, Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education, ACU
• Lenore Adie (PhD) – – Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Assessment, Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education, ACU
• Michele Haynes (PhD) – Professor of Data Analytics for Education Research, Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education, ACU
• Chantelle Day (PhD) – Research Partnerships Manager, Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education, ACU

To access the book:

• Visit: https://www.routledge.com/Professionalizing-Teacher-Education-Performance-Assessment-Standards/Wyatt-Smith-Adie-Haynes-Day/p/book/9780367332129