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Cochran-Smith, Marilyn; Reagan, Emilie Mitescu – Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Since the early 2000s, accountability and evaluation have been regarded by policymakers as key mechanisms for "fixing" teacher education and by many teacher education leaders as vehicles for elevating the status of the profession and uniting a fragmented field. Although educational inequity has been an enduring and endemic problem during…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Accountability
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Melnick, Susan L.; Pullin, Diana – Journal of Teacher Education, 2000
Examines recent implementation of the controversial Massachusetts Educator Certification Tests and the educational, legal, and public policy issues in the implementation of a teacher testing program. The paper focuses on: the contexts for teacher testing; the tests themselves; the quality of the tests; and legal issues in teacher testing and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods