Professionalizing Teacher Education (ePub)

Claire Wyatt-Smith (Ph.D.) is Professor of Educational Assessment and Measurement and the Director of the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University. Her research focusses on standards, moderation, professional judgment, and the implications of digital disruption for teacher professionalism. Current research includes a large-scale Australian study working with a national Collective of universities on the design and implementation of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA). She has held leadership roles in universities and schools in Australia and advisory roles internationally. She currently leads a longitudinal quantitative analysis of the quality and impact of initial teacher education. She has undertaken many large-scale studies with Australian Research Council and other research consultancy funds. Her latest books with colleagues are Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing: Assessments, Big Data and the Transformation of Schooling (2021, Routledge) and Teaching Performance Assessments as a Cultural Disruptor in Initial Teacher Education: Standards, Evidence and ollaboration (2021, Springer).

Lenore Adie (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Assessment, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University. Her research focuses on assessment and moderation processes as these contribute to quality assurance and improvement purposes. Her research has generated new knowledge in the field of assessment, focusing on quality in assessment practices and processes, in particular, within systems of standards-referenced assessment. She currently leads an Australian Research Council project investigating the use of scaled annotated exemplars of achievement standards in online moderation to improve teacher assessment capability. She has extensive professional experience