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LANTITE's Impact on Teacher Diversity: Unintended Consequences of Testing Pre-Service Teachers
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Alison L. Hilton; Rebecca Saunders – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Australian schools are diverse, and support students from a wide range of racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, as well as students with disability. Ironically, efforts to ensure equally diverse teacher workforces have been ineffective. Attempts to improve broader representation in teachers have been hampered by a homogenous approach to…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competency Testing
Characterisation of Teacher Professional Knowledge and Skill through Content Representations from Tertiary Chemistry Educators
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Schultz, M.; Lawrie, G. A.; Bailey, C. H.; Dargaville, B. L. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
An established tool for collating secondary teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (Loughran's CoRe) has been adapted for use by tertiary educators. Chemistry lecturers with a range of levels of experience were invited to participate in workshops through which the tool was piloted, refined and applied. We now present this refined tool for the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Developing an Approach to the Performance-Oriented Testing of Science Teachers' Action-Related Competencies
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Bartels, Hauke; Geelan, David; Kulgemeyer, Christoph – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Measuring teachers' skills to carry out the complex tasks required in teaching is an important means of evaluating the effectiveness of teacher education but remains a challenging activity to conduct in practice. It is necessary to optimise approaches for usability and effectiveness along a continuum from low-effort and low-authenticity measures…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Competency Testing, Performance Based Assessment, Physics
Numeracy and Australian Teachers
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Forgasz, Helen; Leder, Gilah – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Australian teachers, recruited via Facebook, completed an online survey about aspects of numeracy. The survey was designed to explore views on numeracy and capacity to respond to numeracy tasks. In this paper, we focus primarily on responses to two numeracy tasks--one numerical, the other requiring critical evaluation. On the first item, 40%…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Online Surveys, Teacher Surveys
Early Career Teachers, Mathematics and Technology: Device Conflict and Emerging Mathematical Knowledge
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Attard, Catherine; Orlando, Joanne – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are positioned in policy/syllabus documents as an essential resource in the teaching of mathematics. Given their youth and lifelong experience with technology, early career teachers (ECTs) are expected to excel in their use of ICT; however, we are not clear on the viability of these expectations and…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
The Adult Basic Education Profession and Competence: Promoting Best Practice. Final Report 1993.
Scheeres, Hermine; And Others – 1993
This report describes the adult basic education profession in Australia across state boundaries and across a wide range of contexts. Chapter 1 discusses competencies and professions and why competency-based teacher education has been unsuccessful. Chapter 2 discusses the context of Adult Basic Education Competencies. Chapter 3 describes the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education