This study investigated the concurrent and construct validity of an alternative group assessment procedure. The study assessed performance and personal traits of teacher education students and compared group assessment ratings to faculty evaluations. Results established the group assessment procedure's construct and concurrent validity. (SM)

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln developed an experimental program, the Extended Elementary Teacher Education Program. This paper describes the effects of one central course, Human Technologies in Teaching, which emphasized collegiality, mentoring, and feedback. Participants believed that the program better prepared students to become successful…

Examines Harvard's early use of case-based instruction in business and education, offering historical insights to those contemplating its use in teacher education. Conceptual clarity about purpose and administrative and financial support for coordinated case writing by faculty are reasons why it succeeded in business but not in education. (SM)

Describes a method of developing teacher-written cases with effective commentaries, noting the need for collaborative exchanges among teachers, scholars, and researchers. Traces the development of four sample cases, proposes four stages in case evolution, and frames a discussion of what was learned about collaborative case writing within the…

Researchers studied how a cognitive flexibility and knowledge transfer theory framed the design of a case-based curriculum for mathematics teacher education. The paper includes a sample mathematics teaching case and analyzes four discussions based on the case. The analysis shows the potential of subject-specific cases for enhancing mathematics…

A teacher educator describes an oral form of case study that makes shared experiences between teachers and students the raw material for crafting cases. Collaborative classroom discussion promotes the development of a more reality-based view of teaching. His greatest successes have been in crafting cases from his own pedagogical failings. (SM)

Researchers developed an analysis system to evaluate teachers' classroom cases, hypothesizing that the way teachers defined and ordered the standard components of narratives would reflect their pedagogical beliefs. Inservice and preservice teachers wrote four case narratives. Self-evident differences emerged between groups in the structural and…

Researchers compared thinking and decision making in expert and novice teachers. They analyzed audiotaped planning interviews, videotaped lessons, stimulated recall interviews, postteaching interviews, delayed self-reports, and printed materials and found striking differences between the mental representations of the two groups. The article…

Regardless of the specific leadership model employed by school of education deans, collaboration is essential to reconcile and harmonize competing needs. Collaboration within the department, with arts and sciences deans, and with unions and agencies outside of the university is discussed. (IAH)

Data from a national survey of 191 assistant and associate deans of education provides the basis for a description of the people who occupy these positions, as well as a description of how they view their careers and job responsibilities. (IAH)

Results are reported from a study which sought to identify factors that faculty (particularly research-oriented faculty) use in evaluating a dean of an education unit. The study specifically examined whether the ability to foster collaboration is an attribute that faculty use in their assessments of a dean. (IAH)

School of education deans (N=268) were surveyed about externally mandated changes to teacher education programs in the areas of admissions, exit criteria, curriculum, and state approval standards. Data is presented on the nature of reforms implemented or anticipated, impact on program autonomy, and whether changes represent good professional…

This article presents findings from the longitudinal study, Research about Teacher Education (RATE). The data presented represents the perceptions of faculty (N=250) and students (N=1130-1140) in elementary teacher education about several programatic aspects of teacher preparation including curriculum, conceptions of teaching, faculty instruction,…

Data is reviewed from the last three years of a national longitudinal survey, Research about Teacher Education (RATE). Analysis of the responses and perceptions of preservice students (N=729-1141) suggests that preservice teachers are characterized by homogeneity, limited cultural horizons, and modest diversity of cultural experience. (IAH)

Pedagogical intelligence is analyzed, with particular emphasis on teacher decision-making strategies, the role of experience, and developmental aspects. Ways in which teacher educators can help foster pedagogical intelligence and specific examples of practices being tried are presented. (IAH)