An empty curriculum : the need to reform teacher licensing regulations and tests /
"Teachers cannot teach what they do not know. This country has tolerated a weak licensing system for prospective teachers for decades. This weak system has been accompanied by an increasingly emptier curriculum for most students, depriving them of the knowledge and skills needed for self-govern...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: What led to the "Massachusetts education miracle"?
- Why we know so little about teacher licensure tests
- Who needs a license to teach and why?
- About teacher licensure tests
- History of teacher licensure tests in the United States
- What generates topics on subject area licensing tests?
- Rationale for new and old licenses in the Bay State
- Other facets of a teacher licensing system to strengthen undergraduate majors
- Strengthening veteran teachers
- Studies of predictive validity and construct validity
- Difficulties in requiring more demanding subject area licensure tests
- What state legislatures probably shouldn't do
- What policy makers and state legislators can do.