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Improving Teacher Quality
Using the Teacher Work Sample to Make Evidence-Based Decisions
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2010
Summary
The teacher work sample (TWS) has become increasingly widely adopted as an end-of-program, performance-based assessment for student teachers. Improving Teacher Quality offers a comprehensive introduction to teacher work sample methodology for teacher educators, student teachers, student teacher supervisors, cooperating teachers, program coordinators, and school administrators. This well-organized and clearly written guide shows how implementation of the TWS can catalyze a series of widespread changes in assessment, teaching, and program improvement. The authors use their extensive experience to describe how to implement the TWS in a carefully sequenced progression that includes creating a valid and reliable system of scoring, teaching reflective thinking skills, making program improvements, and conducting research with TWS data. Helpful suggestions are provided throughout for those interested in adopting the TWS as a performance-based assessment in their teacher education program, those interested in how the TWS can provide evidence of minimal competency, and those interested in how the TWS can provide data for making program improvements.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-60709-185-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-60709-186-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Table of Contents No access
List of Figures No access
List of Tables No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One An Overview of TWSM No access
Chapter Two The TWS Prompt: Planning Processes No access
Chapter Three The TWS Prompt: Assessment Processes No access
Chapter Four Building a TWS Culture No access
Chapter Five Establishing a Sound and Rigorous Scoring Process No access
Chapter Six Teaching to the TWS No access
Chapter Seven Conducting Research with TWS Data No access
Chapter Eight Revising the TWS No access
Chapter Nine Future Directions for the TWS No access
Appendix A The University of Northern Iowa TWS: for the Student Teaching Level No access Pages 137 - 164
Appendix B TWS Exemplar No access Pages 165 - 194
Appendix C Adapted TWS Prompt No access Pages 195 - 202
Appendix D Adapted TWS Exemplar No access Pages 203 - 230
Appendix E Contextual Factors Paper Assignment No access Pages 231 - 234
