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RESEARCH ABOUT TEACHER EDUCATION

In February 2008 AACTE’s Board of Directors approved a Research Agenda for teacher education. The research agenda outline was recommended by the AACTE Committee on Research and Dissemination. AACTE leaders continue to explore potential future directions for research in the field of teacher education which the Association can help to promote, facilitate, guide, sponsor and / or conduct.

AACTE has also authored Research Standards and Guidelines, a set of standards for the conduct of rigorous educational research that build on previously developed guidelines in the educational research community. This document provides guidance for AACTE interactions concerning educational research with other education stakeholders, including federal agencies, educational associations, schools of education, and the press. The guidelines also govern AACTE relationships with individuals requesting access to data from AACTE for research purposes. The standards are also intended to inform the conduct of education research at AACTE member institutions.

Other AACTE activities related to research on teacher education include the national database on faculty, candidate and program indicators for teacher education and the Journal of Teacher Education published by AACTE in cooperation with Sage Publications.

AACTE also supports research in teacher education through annual Writing and Research awards.

Message to PEDS Coordinators from AACTE CEO Sharon P. Robinson

Dear Colleague:

We have recently communicated with many deans in member institutions about your need for important data related to educator preparation programs in your institutions -- data for your own improvement purposes, to answer accountability requirements, and to conduct benchmarking analysis of data on a variety of factors. We are in the process of developing a database system that will serve your needs better. more...

AACTE manages a number of data collection, data analysis, and knowledge-generation activities and projects.

Making Private Deliberations Public
In this collaboration between AACTE and the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, faculty from a variety of institutions offer an honest portrayal of how they have adjusted to recent policy emphases on assessment, standardization, and content knowledge for teachers and their preparation programs. more...

Data Collection and Analysis

Professional Education Data System (PEDS)

Making the Data Matter
At AACTE's recent Annual Meeting, Eduventures previewed a new report using data from the PEDS system.
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Professional Education Data System (PEDS) 2007
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) would like to thank all institutions which have completed and submitted the data for part A and B of the 2007 PEDS report.
For questions about parts A & B of the 2007 PEDS report, please email the PEDS Coordinator at peds@aacte.org or call (202)293-2450. For all questions about Part C, please contact the NCATE Annual Report Part C Coordinator at ncate@ncate.org

Research Assistance

Sponsored Research Project
Special Feature on the Deanship
The Association endorsed a survey of schools, colleges and department of education deans, chairs, and department heads. This survey gathered information about career paths and identified criteria used to select future deans. The original survey was designed by Gayle Mindes of Depaul University and Mari Koerner of the University of Massachusetts - Boston. AACTE staff, Alison McNeil and Leslie Bozeman, have developed this special feature to display the survey results.

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