R&L Education / Association of Teacher Educators (ATE)
Pages: 266
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-57886-547-5 • Paperback • November 2006 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Louise F. Deretchin, Ph.D., is director of higher education for the Houston A+ Challenge and cofounder of the Regional Faculty. Cheryl J. Craig, Ph.D., is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Houston and coordinator of the teaching and teacher education program.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Division 1: Philosophy, History, and Design of Accountability Systems
Chapter 4 The Uses and Abuses of Measurement
Chapter 5 Teachers' Self-Understanding in Times of Performativity
Chapter 6 Standards and Accountability
Part 7 Division 2: Impact and Consequences of Accountability Systems
Chapter 8 Accountability Systems and Program Evaluation
Chapter 9 Revisiting the Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Student Outcomes from an International Perspective
Chapter 10 Broken Promises, High Stakes, and Consequences for Native Americans
Chapter 11 Accountability Systems' Narrowing Effect on Curriculum in the United States: A Report within an Elementary Education Teacher Certification Program
Chapter 12 The Impact of Standardized Testing on Teachers' Pedagogy in Three 2nd-Grade Classrooms of Varied Socio-Economic Settings
Part 13 Division 3: Perceptions and Perspectives of Accountability Systems
Chapter 14 No Teacher Educator Left Behind
Chapter 15 Critique through Visual Data
Chapter 16 No Child Left Behind and Accountability through a Democratic Lens
Part 17 Division 4: Underpinnings of Powerful Accountability Systems
Chapter 19 The Antecedents of Success
Chapter 20 Creating a Learning Space for Educators
Chapter 21 Lessons from Te Kotahitanga for Teacher Education
Chapter 22 Summary and Implications
Chapter 22 Afterword
This Yearbook addresses a timely topic. The volume's editors... provide some useful suggestions for needed research. This book ...should be helpful for informing the continuing debate on how to create TBA systems that lead to beneficial outcomes for students.
— Teachers College Record