Monday 13 August 2018
Start Date
13-8-2018 11:30 AM
End Date
13-8-2018 12:30 PM
Subjects
Teacher evaluation, Senior teachers, Evaluation criteria, Frameworks, Portfolios (Background materials), Certification, Standards, Evidence based practice
Abstract
We know that good teachers are worth their weight in gold. But if good teaching is to be truly valued, the teaching profession must be able to demonstrate that it can evaluate itself in ways that are reliable, valid and fair. This capacity is central to any profession. It is also central to lifting the status of teaching, rewarding accomplished teaching and enabling teaching to complete with other professions for our ablest graduates. Recent OECD reports emphasise the necessity of strengthening the teaching profession, which depends upon widespread use of evidence-based teaching practices. Building the capacity for evaluation is the purpose of the ACER Portfolio Project: to develop valid and feasible methods by which teachers can demonstrate the ways in which they meet the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Highly Accomplished level. This presentation reviews the work of the Portfolio Project in developing an assessment and evaluation framework for Highly Accomplished teaching, piloting the assessment tasks with teachers, training assessors, setting standards, and identifying benchmarks for highly accomplished teaching.
Recommended Citation
Ingvarson, L. (2018, August 13). Assessing accomplished teaching with reliability and validity: The ACER Portfolio Project [Paper presentation]. Research Conference 2018 - Teaching practices that make a difference: Insights from research. https://research.acer.edu.au/research_conference/RC2018/13august/7
Copyright Statement
Copyright Australian Council for Educational Research 2018
Place of Publication
Melbourne, Australia
Publisher
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
ISBN
9781742865119
Included in
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons
Assessing accomplished teaching with reliability and validity: The ACER Portfolio Project
We know that good teachers are worth their weight in gold. But if good teaching is to be truly valued, the teaching profession must be able to demonstrate that it can evaluate itself in ways that are reliable, valid and fair. This capacity is central to any profession. It is also central to lifting the status of teaching, rewarding accomplished teaching and enabling teaching to complete with other professions for our ablest graduates. Recent OECD reports emphasise the necessity of strengthening the teaching profession, which depends upon widespread use of evidence-based teaching practices. Building the capacity for evaluation is the purpose of the ACER Portfolio Project: to develop valid and feasible methods by which teachers can demonstrate the ways in which they meet the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Highly Accomplished level. This presentation reviews the work of the Portfolio Project in developing an assessment and evaluation framework for Highly Accomplished teaching, piloting the assessment tasks with teachers, training assessors, setting standards, and identifying benchmarks for highly accomplished teaching.
Comments
Session 3K