"Just Like K–12": New Accountability Systems in Teacher Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Teacher Education, Licensure, Evaluation, and Accountability (Table 13)

Abstract

In the last decade, new high-stakes accountability systems intended to transform teacher education and change its culture emerged in different contexts across the country. Yet little is known about how new accountability systems and reporting requirements affect teacher education (Wilson & Youngs, 2005). Rooted in sociocultural approaches to policy, this project addresses this gap by exploring how different policy actors conceptualize, appropriate, contest, and negotiate the emergence of accountability systems and what responses these systems produce in teacher education. Focusing on teacher education accountability reforms in a southeastern state, the paper examines and juxtaposes multiple perspectives on new data collection and reporting as well as the consequences of these transformations for various participants.

Author

• Elena Aydarova, University of Wisconsin - Madison