Teaching Performance Assessments as a Cultural Disruptor in Initial Teacher Education: Standards, Evidence and Collaboration (Hardcover, 2021)

Part I. Situating Teaching Performance Assessments.- Chapter 1. Professional standards, evidence and collaboration: Cultural disruption in teacher education.- Chapter 2. The conceptualisation of teaching performance assessment: Designing for evidence of graduate competence.- Chapter 3. Introducing a new model for online cross-institutional moderation.- Chapter 4. Teacher education reform and preservice teacher assessment: Representations of teachers and initial teacher education in new media.- Part II. Giving an Account of Teaching Performance Assessments In situ.- Chapter 5. Opportunities and tensions in the experiences of collaborative professionalism during the enactment of the GTPA.- Chapter 6. Collaboration in a context of accountability: Cultural change in teacher educator practice across university.- Chapter 7. Redefining boundaries in initial teacher education: Creating a collective vision and approach to preparing high-quality graduate teachers.- Chapter 8. GTPA as enabler: Review, renewal and evidence of preservice teachers’ assessment. Chapter 9. The GTPA as a collaborative project in Australian initial teacher education: A cultural-historical activity theory perspective.- Part III. A Suite of Provocations.- Chapter 10. Provocation 1: Toward more radical assessment systems.- Chapter 11. Provocation 2 : The impact of digital upon assessment: Innovation is necessary but not easy .- Chapter 12. Provocation 3: Language in the school room.- Chapter 13. Provocation 4: Educating for the future ? reflections from COVID-19 lockdown.- Chapter 14. Provocation 5: COVID triggered disruption in teacher education and resultant action.- Chapter 15. Commentary: We have to get TPAs right.- Part IV. Future Directions.- Chapter 16. Innovation in methodology: Longitudinal analysis of progression in teacher preparation.- Chapter 17. Disrupting teacher education for sustainable change.- Glossary.