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Teacher Education Follow-Up Evaluation: How to do It

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Teacher Education Evaluation

Part of the book series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services ((EEHS))

Abstract

“Only when we know why a teacher is effective—as well as how—can we decide how best to train teachers” (Medley, 1977, p. 6). These words are even more true today. A student spends four or five years in an institution of higher education preparing to become a teacher. Does the institution really know how successful it was in preparing the student for a particular teaching position? If the institution recognizes a problem with its teacher education program, does it have the empirical evidence to warrant changes? The answer, at best, to these questions is maybe.

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  1. Center for Teacher Education Evaluation, USA

    Jerry B. Ayers (Director, Associate Dean and Professor of Education)

  2. College of Education at Tennessee Technological University, USA

    Jerry B. Ayers (Director, Associate Dean and Professor of Education)

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Ayers, J.B. (1988). Teacher Education Follow-Up Evaluation: How to do It. In: Gephart, W.J., Ayers, J.B. (eds) Teacher Education Evaluation. Evaluation in Education and Human Services. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2675-2_5

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