Promoting and sustaining a quality teacher workforce / edited by Gerald K. LeTendre, Alexander W. Wiseman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : the challenges of teacher effectiveness and quality worldwide / Gerald K. LeTendre, Alexander W. Wiseman -- The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) strategy on teacher statistics : developing effective measures of quantity and quality in education / Peter Wallet -- Measuring teachers' professional learning activities in international context / Motoko Akiba -- Regimes of teacher beliefs from a comparative and international perspective / Pablo Fraser, Sakiko Ikoma -- Unpacking teacher differences in Didaktik and curriculum traditions : trends from TIMSS 2003, 2007, and 2011 / Armend Tahirsylaj, Kristina Brezicha, Sakiko Ikoma -- Exploring novice teachers' core competencies / Kent Seidel, Jennifer Whitcomb -- Indicators of quality in teacher education : looking at features of teacher education from an international perspective / Karen Hammerness, Kirsti Klette -- The influence of teacher education on mathematics teaching knowledge : local implementation of global ideals / Maria Teresa Tatto, Michael Rodriguez, Yang Lu -- Building and sustaining a quality STEM teacher workforce : access to instructional leadership and the interruptions of educator turnover / Edward J. Fuller, Lindsey Schrott -- No teacher is an island : how social networks shape teacher quality / Kira J. Baker-Doyle -- Conceptual understandings of democracy and values as aspects of teacher quality : the case of teacher education in Sweden / Björn Åstrand -- Teachers' responses to changes in teacher evaluation policy in Korea and the United States / Peter Youngs, Jihyun Kim, James Pippin -- Current trends in the framing of teacher qualities / Stephanie L. Knight, Richard A. Duschl -- World culture and teacher quality: consensus, convergence, and conflict / Gerald K. LeTendre, Alexander W. Wiseman.

Teacher effectiveness and teacher quality have become the focus of intense international attention and concern. Around the world, governments are modifying existing certification requirements or implementing value-added modeling in order to qualify teachers without planning for the long-term consequences of these actions. The book brings together scholars from multi-disciplinary and international backgrounds to address two critical areas: (1) what existing cross-national measures of teacher effectiveness and teacher quality are most promising, and how can these be aligned to maximize their research potential; and (2) what core constructs of teacher quality or effectiveness are missing, and how can cross-national research help identify these. Identifying both what is used and what is missing in the international and comparative analysis and reform of teacher quality is key to informing evidence-based educational policy formation around teacher quality.

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