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Schultz, M.; Lawrie, G. A.; Bailey, C. H.; Dargaville, B. L. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
An established tool for collating secondary teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (Loughran's CoRe) has been adapted for use by tertiary educators. Chemistry lecturers with a range of levels of experience were invited to participate in workshops through which the tool was piloted, refined and applied. We now present this refined tool for the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Brantley-Dias, Laurie; Ertmer, Peggy A. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2013
In the education community, the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework has become a popular construct for examining the types of teacher knowledge needed to achieve technology integration. In accordance with Katz and Raths's 'Goldilocks Principlen' (cited in Kagan, 1990), TPACK, with its seven knowledge domains, may be too…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technology Integration, Teacher Competency Testing
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McGee, Jennifer; Colby, Susan – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
Understanding effective and appropriate techniques for assessing student learning has never been as critical and political as is it is today. Accurate assessment methodologies employed in public schools are vital to the interpretation of student achievement data through which school effectiveness is being measured. Although there is a need,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum, Methods Courses
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Kaya, Sibel; Dag, Funda – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to adapt the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Survey developed by Schmidt and colleagues into Turkish and investigate its factor structure through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The participants were 352 elementary pre-service teachers from three large universities in northwestern…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Surveys, Educational Technology
Wise, A. E., Ed.; Ehrenberg, P., Ed.; Leibbrand, J., Ed. – National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NJ3), 2010
"It's All About Student Learning Assessing Teacher Candidates' Ability to Impact P-12 Students", provides practical assistance for institutions designing or revising assessment systems or individual assessments for use by units or programs. The publication includes performance assessments currently used by teacher preparation institutions and…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
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Schoenfeld, Alan H. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
The authors of this volume's stimulus papers have taken on the challenge of developing measures of teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT). This task involves multiple decisions and considerations, including: (1) How does one specify the body of knowledge being assessed? What warrants are offered for those choices?; (2) How does one…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Psychometrics, Test Construction, Evaluation Research
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Hill, Heather C. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
The author offers some thoughts on commentator's reactions to the substance of the measures, particularly those about measuring teacher learning and change, based on the major uses of the measures, and because this is a significant challenge facing test development as an enterprise. If teacher learning results in more integrated knowledge or…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Tests, Measurement, Faculty Development
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Schilling, Stephen – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2007
In this article, the author echoes his co-author's and colleague's pleasure (Hill, this issue) at the thoughtfulness and far-ranging nature of the comments to their initial attempts at test validation for the mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) measures using the validity argument approach. Because of the large number of commentaries they…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Persuasive Discourse, Educational Testing, Measurement