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Education Commission of the States, 2020
Teacher license reciprocity allows educators who hold a teaching license in one state to earn a license in another state, subject to meeting state-specific requirements. Reciprocity agreements allow states to work through variations in licensing systems to coordinate license transfers and fill vacant teaching positions with qualified candidates.…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Interstate Programs, State Standards, Teacher Competency Testing
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Türker, Abdullah – International Education Studies, 2021
The number of teacher candidates is increasing as a result of the excessive quotas given to departments that train teacher candidates and the right to teach different branches with pedagogical formation certificates. Therefore it becomes compulsory to hold selection exams in teacher appointments. The exams carried out during this selection process…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Selection, Teacher Competencies
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Santagata, Rossella; Sandholtz, Judith Haymore – Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This exploratory study examines the relationship between preservice teachers' performance on a teaching performance assessment for licensure in elementary mathematics and a measure of knowledge that, in studies of practicing teachers, was found to predict effective mathematics teaching. A sample of 89 preservice teachers completed the Performance…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Aravena, Felipe; Quiroga, Marta – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2018
The main purpose of this paper is to analyse a specific educational policy in a national context: INICIA (In Spanish: Start) in Chile. Enacted in 2008, this policy evaluates beginning teachers at the national level before they start their professional careers in schools. The INICIA has been categorised as a certification policy to measure what…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Reflection, Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Krauss, S.; Bruckmaier, G.; Lindl, A.; Hilbert, S.; Binder, K.; Steib, N.; Blum, W. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Two different tools for assessing pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of mathematics teachers used in the framework of the COACTIV study are systematically compared in this paper, namely the paper-and-pencil test consisting of items on the three facets "knowledge of explaining and representation," "knowledge of student thinking and…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Teachers, Measures (Individuals), Teacher Competency Testing
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Bütüner, Suphi Önder – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
This study describes secondary school mathematics teachers' use of history of mathematics in their classes and their knowledge levels in this field. The study population included a total of 58 secondary school mathematics teachers working at the secondary schools located in Yozgat city center, and the sample included 32 mathematics teachers from…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Teacher Competency Testing
Putnam, Tara – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Teacher preparation programs provide teacher candidates with foundational knowledge, application experiences, and training to graduate highly effective teachers. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation has a major impact on how faculty in teacher education programs prepare their preservice teacher candidates. For subject matter…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing
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Garcia, Maria Rosa; Junyent, Mercè; Fonolleda, Marta – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to contribute to the professional competency approach in Education for Sustainability (ES) from the perspective of complexity and to the assessment of these competencies. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research process was used, which consisted of two main phases--a documentary analysis of the internationally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Educational Practices
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Colak, Ismail; Demir, Selcuk Besir – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2017
Many systems have been developed on teacher selection and appointments procedures throughout history in Turkey. Latest teacher appointments and selection systems in Turkey is Oral Exam Evaluation. This new system is discussed in detail in this study. Basically, the study is to analysis what the positive and negative reflections of the system might…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Tests, Teacher Certification, Teacher Competency Testing
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Kocabas, Ayfer; Erbil, Deniz Gokce – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Cooperative learning method is a learning method studied both in Turkey and in the world for long years as an active learning method. Although cooperative learning method takes place in training programs, it cannot be implemented completely in the direction of its principles. The results of the researches point out that teachers have problems with…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teacher Competencies, Test Construction, Teacher Competency Testing
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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
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Mohamadi, Zohre; Malekshahi, Negin – Language Testing in Asia, 2018
Background: Inadequacy of authority-based defensive teaching and summative and product-based evaluation such as certification and observation measures in providing information about the actual teaching teachers do was an inspiration in this study to design an inventory for formative and process-based evaluation of teacher competences. This study…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing, Teacher Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Kent, Andrea M.; Giles, Rebecca M. – SRATE Journal, 2017
Since efficacy of experienced teachers is difficult to change (Hoy, 2000), preservice teachers' technology self-efficacy is a creditable indicator of graduates' likelihood to use instructional technology throughout their careers. A study was conducted with elementary preservice teachers (n = 62) who completed a 5-item, Likert-type survey measuring…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy, Likert Scales
Shah, Harshini; Niland, Katherine; Kharsa, Miranda; Caronongan, Pia; Moiduddin, Emily – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2020
In 2017, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) funded Mathematica to conduct the Infant and Toddler Teacher and Caregiver Competencies (ITTCC) project. The project aims to examine existing efforts across states, institutions of higher education, professional organizations, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Caregivers, Preschool Teachers
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Neubrand, Michael – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
Different conceptualizations exist about the components of the knowledge teachers need to teach mathematics with professional consciousness, and a researcher needs to describe and assess that knowledge. The fact, however, is that different conceptualizations respond to different needs, and thus, the variety is even a chance to develop the field…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Competency Testing, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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