What does it mean to be a competent beginning teacher? This review melds findings from
the literature on effective teaching with those of learning to teach in order to answer this …

Teachers are the most important element of the education system. Their education and
qualification can therefore play a decisive role in optimizing educational processes …

What should a newly licensed teacher know and be able to do? In this article, I discuss
findings from 5 studies undertaken by Educational Testing Service to elicit judgments from …

In teacher education, general pedagogical and psychological knowledge (PPK) is often
taught separately from the teaching subject itself, potentially leading to inert knowledge. In …

Examined agreement between importance ratings used in job analysis. The ratings were
obtained from small committees of content experts and from field-survey respondents. Three …

The purpose of this study was to conduct a job analysis of the basic skills judged to be
important for all entry-level teachers regardless of subject area taught or grade level …

The purpose of this experimental study was to determine which factors of human capital
were valued most by principals regarding their decisions to interview candidates, based on …

Language of the “knowledge base of teaching” is common parlance in educational circles
today, yet the constructs under discussion are still unclear. Some educators talk of domains …

Several writers have described the entire series and its development process (Dwyer &
Villegas, 1993; Powers, 1992a; Reynolds, 1992a; Rosenfeld, Freeberg, & Bukatko, 1992; …

The purpose of this study is to explore the validity evidence supporting the high-leverage
practices (HLPs) of the ETS® National Observational Teaching Exam (NOTE) assessment …