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Carroll, Mike – Professional Development in Education, 2009
This article will map the process of collaborative professional enquiry in an attempt to make sense of the structural elements evident in creating a "Community of Collaborative Professional Enquiry" (CCPE). At the heart of each CCPE examined was a collaborative, improvement-focused intervention that was designed and implemented by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry
Milanowski, Anthony T.; Heneman, Herbert G., III; Kimball, Steven M. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2011
This paper reports on a study of the current state of the art in teaching assessment. The major goal of the study was to examine a sample of assessment systems and then develop a specification for a state-of the art performance assessment system to be used for human capital management functions. The authors hope was that this specification would…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Management Systems, Formative Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Dwyer, Carol Anne; Villegas, Ana Maria – 1993
This paper discusses underlying beliefs about teaching that are related to the assessment of prospective teachers and elucidates some basic beliefs that are guiding the development of new types of assessments for new teachers. These new assessments are called "The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers(TM)."…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beliefs, Cognitive Style, Educational Assessment
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, 2004
Since the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, much has been said and written about the law by a variety of education observers, practitioners, and policymakers from both sides of the political aisle. With support from the Ford, Rockefeller, and Z. Smith Reynolds foundations,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation