Do the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation Standards and edTPA Define Quality Teacher in the Same Way?

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Division K Section 8 Poster Session 2

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the components (CAEP accreditation standards, edTPA pre-service assessment) related to teacher development to determine the similarity in their definition of quality teacher.
NVivo software was used to code the documents. The nodes developed from coding the document “What Teachers Should Know and Be Able to Do” were used to create the axial nodes. The coding documents were taken from the resource sections of the CAEP (www.caepnet.org) and the edTPA (www.edtpa.aacte.org/faq) websites.
The final analysis revealed a large the number of disconnects in the rankings for the full documents as well as the individual propositions in NBPTS. The data suggested there is no clear shared view of the definition of quality teacher.

Author

• Arlene B Crandall, St. John's University