Full Description
Using Data for Continuous Improvement in Educator Preparation provides case studies that illuminate and contextualize the ways in which educator preparation programs determine the data they need to improve, collect data, analyze data, share data with stakeholders, and close the loop by making focused improvements based on the data.
Educator preparation programs operate in a wide range of contexts that have different requirements (e.g., state-mandated measures), different affordances, and different needs. This text focuses on not only the stories of how data is collected, analyzed, and used for improvement, but also on how stakeholders are impacted by the continuous improvement process.
In the editors' work with accreditation and educator preparation program evaluation, they noticed a variety of approaches to collecting, analyzing, and using data for program improvement. Often this intense work with data goes unnoticed and unappreciated because it is done in the service of accreditation that, once completed, does not reach an audience outside of the institution and the accreditation agency. Using Data for Continuous Improvement in Educator Preparation solves this problem by shedding light on this important work. This volume inaugurates the AAQEP Program Evaluation in Education Series.
Perfect for courses such as: Methods of Program Evaluation; Teacher Education; Improvement Science.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1) Adding Structure to Existing Assessment Practices with Research Questions
Sunny Duerr and Nicole Wise
2) Using an Improvement Science Approach for Creating a Learning Culture at a Hispanic-Serving Teacher Preparation Program—
Criselda G. Garcia and Veronica L. Estrada
3) Triangulating Data Through Action Research to Set Priorities, Connect to Partners, and Design Program Improvements
Julie Kalnin, Deirdre Hon, Joan Flora, Hillary Merk, and Nicole Ralston
4) Practicing What We Preach: Using Data from the PRAXIS Performance Assessment for Teachers to Guide Instruction
Emma L. Mecham
5) Bringing Global Texts into the Classroom: Challenging Preservice Teachers to Engage with Diverse Books
Andrea Tochelli-Ward
6) Classroom and Behavior Management: A Case Study in Using Data to Revise a Course and Better Prepare Novice Teachers
Heather Ann Bower
7) Continuous Program Improvement through an Integrated Student Support System
Hope G. Castro and Virginia R. Lee
8) Developing a Five-Layer Dispositional Assessment System in a School of Education
Vincent Genareo
9) Enhancing Quality Program Practices Through a Qualitative Student Teacher Feedback Survey
Joseph Haughey, Ashley Strickland, Travis Dimmitt, Everett Singleton, Jennifer Wall, Mike McBride, and Tim Wall
10) Strengthening Social, Emotional, and Culturally Sustaining Teaching Practices: A Study of Oregon Educator Preparation and New Teacher Perceptions
Kristin Rush, Shara MonDragon, Rebecca Bahr, Kirsten Plumeau, Susan Boe, Deirdre Hon, Julie Sauve, and Lina Darwich
11) Redesigning Principal Preparation Programs: A Continuous Improvement Culture Using Bambrick-Santoyo's Data Meeting Conceptual Framework
Stephanie Atchley and Sharon Ross
12) Using a Data-Driven Dialogue Protocol for Continuous Improvement
Kristen M. Driskill
13) Implementing the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle: Beginning to Measure Growth with Intention
Amanda Howerton-Fox and Mark A. Kessler
14) Maximizing Student Outcomes: Harnessing the Power of Faculty Collaboration and Continuous Program Improvement
Alicia Kozimor
15) Engagement in Continuous Improvement in Service of Accreditation Leads to More Nuanced Understandings of Data
Juliet Michelsen Wahleithner
16) Data, Data Everywhere, But Is It What You Think?
Sunny Duerr
About the Authors
Index
