过程本位:教师教育质量监测的路径选择

本文在提出和探讨"过程本位"教师教育质量监测模式的内涵与特征基础上,从传统教师教育质量监测制度的局限性、新时代教师教育改革的必然要求和信息技术的发展支撑等方面分析了转向"过程本位"教师教育质量监测的必要性,从树立科学的教师教育质量监测理念、重视教师教育过程中不断变化的"人"的因素、不断优化教师教育质量监测路径、根据监测结果不断完善教师教育质量监测制度等四个方面提出"过程本位"的教师教育质量监测实施路径。     

客观对待教师绩效评价和发展性教师评价

教师绩效评价有其特定的内涵,既包括对教师教学工作过程的评价,也包括对教师教学工作结果的评价。由于教育目标更具模糊性与教育效果的复杂性,对教师的绩效评价就更应侧重于对教师教学过程的评价。许多研究者与管理者却把教师绩效评价曲解为“不正确”的教师评价,而把发展性教师评价神化为“正确”的教师评价。他们错误地认为教师绩效评价只能调动少部分人的积极性,绩效评价是针对过去的、对未来没有意义,唯有发展性教师评价才能促进教师发展,而教师绩效评价不能促进教师专业发展。实际上,发展性教师评价关于“自我实现的人”的人性假设及其人文主义的管理范式也有其内在的缺陷。虽然,发展性教师评价是更高境界的教师评价,但它必须以教师绩效评价所达到的严格、精确为现实基础。由于我国现阶段教师管理中面临的最严重的问题是科学化不足,因此,应当认真对待教师绩效评价,而不是盲目地推崇发展性教师评价。     

美国教师教育STaR评估量表

本介绍了美国教育技术CEO论坛开发的教师教育机构STaR评估量表，及其背景和意义，这对国内制订相关政策有参考价值。     

Assessment of Teacher Trainees

Deciding whether a teacher trainee is ready to become an effective member of the teaching profession is an expected responsibility of any teacher training institution. In many cases, more is expected. Discrimination is required toward teacher trainees in deciding who is able, who is adequate, or better or best. These expectations have necessitated institutions formulating and improving a number of methods for making such decisions. As part of the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Institute of Education, this paper is being presented as a focus on the assessment of teacher trainees for accreditation in becoming part of the task force of teachers in Singapore.     

Assessment360: A Promising Assessment Technique for Preservice Teacher Education

The call for preservice teachers to exercise reflective practices has echoed through U.S. education policy and research for a number of years and is evident in U.S. preservice teaching standards. As a result, educator preparation programs are challenged to design learning experiences and assessments that foster reflection skills. This study describes a promising assessment technique, named Assessment360, which can be implemented during coursework to prepare future teachers to be reflective practitioners. Assessment360 is a formative assessment technique in which students reflect on the content of a quiz individually and collaboratively in order to develop a deeper and more integrated understanding of the material. Thirty-one preservice education students enrolled in an undergraduate educational psychology course participated in this research. Results of the questionnaire suggested participation in Assessment360 potentially (a) fostered reflection, (b) encouraged peer interaction and learning (i.e., collaboration), and (c) promoted timely and frequent feedback. Implications and significance are discussed.     

Hallway Conferencing: Achieving Teacher Buy-In to the Writing Center

Technology education, not to be confused with educational technology, has an “official curriculum.” This article explores this “official curriculum” and answers the following questions; what are the goals of technology education, what should technology education look like in classrooms, and why technology education is important. This article provides a primer on technology education that would be helpful to educational professionals interested in helping students become more technological literate.     

注意:概念、测验和教师等级评定

本文的理论部分探讨注意的性质、注意的测验和测量，以及注意缺陷的鉴定。注意具有选择性，它包含着对冲动反应的抑制和对分心的克服。第二部分讨论三项经验研究，这些研究探索了注意等级评定量表的使用，该量表由教师对儿童在课堂情境下的注意情况进行等级评定。研究发现，教师的等级评定可以预测课外情境中儿童在注意测验上的表现。这些等级评定具有显著的预测性，正如该测验的结果所表明的，教师一直关注着儿童注意的一个重要方面，即对分心的抵制。在结论性评述中，讨论了可能导向注意缺陷改善的动态测试。第三部分是附录部分，例举了若干注意力测验。     

The Winnipeg Center Project: Teacher education for inner-city people

Education in the inner city is complicated by a series of unique problems. These problems have been recognized but little has been done by teacher educators to prepare teachers to cope with them. The Winnipeg Center Project represents an attempt to prepare individuals, drawn from the inner city, to become teachers who are specially prepared to cope with these problems.

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Résumé Une suite de problèmes particuliers complique l'enseignement dans les centre-villes. Ces problèmes ont été reconnus mais les responsables de la formation des maîtres ont peu fait pour préparer les professeurs à y faire face. Le Winnipeg Center Project est une expérience destinée à préparer des individus provenant des centre-villes à devenir des professeurs formés spécialement en vue de faire face à ces problèmes.

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For further information, the author can be contacted c/o Aberdeen School, 450 Flora Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2W 2R7.     

Pupil Assessment Issues: A Teacher Educator's Perspective

The purpose of this article is to discuss the problems that effectively prevent secondary physical education teachers from utilizing the theoretically sound pupil assessment practices that are taught in professional preparation courses. After the need for formal, systematic pupil assessment as demonstrated in the professional literature is identified, six critical issues are discussed: a narrow and negative view of assessment, lack of responsibility for learning, the problem of vague and long-term goals, the problem of lack of record keeping, the need for administrative and collegial support, and professional preparation. Suggestions for teacher education focus on making pupil assessment a priority from the beginning to the end of the preparation period, and on weaving assessment practices directly into the teaching process.     

Assessment Literacy Overlooked: A Teacher Educator's Confession

This article presents reflections and guidance concerning assessment literacy in teacher education. Previous inadequacies in teacher training in educational assessment highlight the need for teachers to be assessment literate. Assessment literacy consists of an individual's understanding of the fundamental assessment concepts and procedures deemed likely to influence educational decisions. Due to the current focus on accountability assessments, it is in teachers' best interest, and also the students', that teachers develop a level of understanding in assessment. Assessment, when used appropriately, is also a powerful tool for learning. What is needed to facilitate assessment literacy in teacher education is more than a brief mention of assessment in a course. A course in assessment with an appropriate text is necessary to bring a more complete understanding of assessment to beginning teachers.     

Teacher Assessment: social process and social product

The advent of the Education Reform Act entailed the introduction into schools in England and Wales of two new forms of assessment, Standard Assessment Tasks and Teacher Assessment. The Conservative government has consistently made claims for the objectivity and comparability of teacher assessment as an achievable aim. There exists, however, within the literature of the sociology of assessment, a body of knowledge which represents a challenge to such claims. This paper reviews the predominant themes in that literature. In addition, it outlines some elements of a recent longitudinal ethnography in a primary school with respect to ways in which pedagogies can be analysed for the purposes of developing these traditional themes in the context of current assessment concerns. The sample consisted of a cohort of some 26 white working‐class children passing through Years 1‐3 of a primary school in the south of England. This paper relates to Year 1, in which the children attained their sixth birthdays.