Using Evidence for Teacher Education Program Improvement and Accountability: An Illustrative Case of the Role of Value-Added Measures
The work of Dr. Marge Plecki, Dr. Ana Elfers and graduate research assistant Yugo Nakamura will appear in the November 2012 issue of the Journal of Teacher Education. Their article is entitled Using Evidence for Teacher Education Program Improvement and Accountability: An Illustrative Case of the Role of Value-Added Measures.
The authors consider what can be learned from limited forms of evidence for purposes of accountability and improvement of teacher education programs. The work includes a review of the existing literature and an illustration of what can be learned from value-added measures as one form of evidence. The authors discuss the need to shift the focus of accountability from simply responding to external requirements to developing internal practices that generate knowledge for improvement.