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Mingqian Yuan; Dongmei Xu – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
Recent decades have witnessed growing attention to child reading education, but research on reading teacher training remains scarce, constituting an impediment to the further advancement of reading instruction. This study seeks to explore the paths to improving reading teachers' professional competence via structured training, using Qinjinmuyu's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Reading Instruction
Christine M. Anderson; Kelly H. Summers; Ryan D. Kopatich; William B. Dwyer – AERA Open, 2023
This quantitative study aims to explore the validity of Donohoo et al.'s (2020) Enabling Conditions for Collective Teacher Efficacy Scale (EC-CTES) for fostering collective efficacy in schools and evaluate its relationship to measures of collective teacher efficacy. The instruments used for this study include the EC-CTES, the Collective Efficacy…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Public School Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing
Walsh, Thomas – History of Education, 2022
This research critically examines the efforts of the British State and the various churches to re-vision the character and status of elementary school teachers in Ireland between the 1830s and the 1920s. In a climate of regular political revolution and denominational hostility, the Westminster government and all churches were anxious to promote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Educational Change, Educational History
Phelps, Geoffrey; Sykes, Gary – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Licensure tests play a critical role in any profession. Well-designed tests both delineate the core competencies that are required to enter a profession and provide evidence that candidates can safely practice in the profession. They also identify the professional knowledge and skill that differentiates any educated individual from the…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Certification, Teacher Competency Testing
Sandra Cruz; Daniela Jimenez; Yulan Sun; Gabriele Kaiser; Leonor Varas – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Teacher education quality and effectiveness have been at the centre of policy discussions in the last decades. As part of efforts to improve teacher preparation, law 20.903 requires Chilean universities to design and apply diagnostic tests assessing the construct of their choice to all first-year preservice teachers. Based on these results,…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Diagnostic Tests, Preservice Teachers
Abdulmejid Mohammed Ahmed; Berhanu Niggussie Worku; Zenebe Negewo Ayane – Cogent Education, 2024
One significant component that has a demonstrable impact on students' achievement is the professional competence of teachers. The study employed a sequential-explanatory research design, a mixed research approach, and a pragmatic worldview. Semi-structured interviews, standardized scale tests, and document analysis were used to gather data. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Teacher Certification
Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Jin, Zeyu; Theobald, Roddy – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
We investigate the predictive validity of teacher licensure tests using data from the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL). MTEL scores predict teachers' in-service performance ratings and contributions to student test scores (i.e., value added). We then explore whether these relationships vary for teacher candidates of color.…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Teacher Competency Testing, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Predictive Validity
Sideridis, Georgios D.; Tsaousis, Ioannis; Al-Sadaawi, Abdullah – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to apply the methodology developed by Raykov on modeling item-specific variance for the measurement of internal consistency reliability with longitudinal data. Participants were a randomly selected sample of 500 individuals who took on a professional qualifications test in Saudi Arabia over four different…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Items, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries
Zimmer, Kayla Sue – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In 2009 New York State began an initiative to improve teaching and learning through the implementation of new teacher certification exams. The Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) replaced the much-maligned Liberal Arts and Sciences Exam (LAST) that had been in a legal battle with minority test takers since 1996. Billed as a "basic test of…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Literacy, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competency Testing
Hollo, Alexandra; Floyd, Kim K.; Brigandi, Carla B. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2019
National- and state-level education policies are evolving to address teacher shortages that are pervasive across the United States and are particularly problematic in rural special education. In this article, we describe a policy we call "endorsement by exam" in which teachers certified in one subject area can become certified in other…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Special Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Certification
Wendy Carss; Bronwen Cowie; Sheralyn Cook – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Initial teacher education programme and paper assessments need to encompass university degree requirements and attest to student mastery of teacher professional competencies. This article reports one aspect of an investigation of the nature and principles employed in the design of assessments for a three-year Bachelor of Teaching (Primary)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Lecture Method, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Phelps, Geoffrey; Bridgeman, Brent; Yan, Fred; Steinberg, Jonathan; Weren, Barbara; Zhou, Jiawen – ETS Research Report Series, 2020
In this report we provide preliminary evidence on the measurement characteristics for a new type of teaching performance assessment designed to be combined with complementary assessments of teacher content knowledge. The resulting test, which we refer to as the Foundational Assessment of Competencies for Teaching (FACT), is designed for use as…
Descriptors: Teacher Competency Testing, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Certification
Putnam, Tara; Newton, Maria; Brusseau, Timothy; Burns, Ryan; Ziegenfuss, Donna; Franklin, Julia – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2021
Assessing teacher competence is a central focus of the growth and development of physical education teacher candidates. For subject matter competency, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation adopted Specialized Professional Associations (SPAs) for each academic discipline, which are used to establish specific standards and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Teacher Competencies
Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
We examine how different measures of teacher quality are related to students' long-run trajectories. Comparing teachers' "test-based" value-added to "nontest" value-added -- based on contributions to student absences and grades -- we find that test and nontest value-added have similar effects on the average quality of colleges…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Measurement Techniques, Outcomes of Education, Attendance Patterns
Braithwaite, Virginia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Until 2014, admission requirements for the educator preparation program at a university in the north central United States included a minimum competency level on the Praxis I basic skills writing test and completion of one general education writing course. However, evidence from the university's ETS reports showed that less than 60% of students as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction