Conceptualising and evaluating teacher quality: substantive and methodological issues.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ingvarson, Lawrence; Rowe, Ken
- Source
- Australian Journal of Education (ACER Press); April 2008, Vol. 52 Issue 1, p5-35, 31p
- Subject
- Teacher education
Standards
Teacher qualifications
Teacher effectiveness
Effective teaching
Educational standards
Evaluation
Academic achievement
Educational tests & measurements
Job qualifications
Econometric models
Teachers
- Language
- ISSN
- 00049441
The writers address substantive and methodological issues in conceptualizing and evaluating teacher quality. Focusing on Australia, they discuss both capacity building in teacher professionalism based on preservice teacher education content and in-service professional development and the specification and assessment of teaching standards. They call for a focus on the need for capacity building in terms of teaching standards.