Meeting the Demand for Accountability: Case Study of a Teacher Education Program in China

Year 2009, Volume: 10 Issue: 3, - , 01.06.2009

Tak Cheung Chan

Abstract

To meet the demand for accountability a teacher education program in a university located in South China has established processes at the college the program and the faculty levels to assure its program quality Highlights of the processes are: involvement of stakeholders and the examination of program effectiveness Although much has been done to help program candidates succeed more effort is needed in the areas of program assessment and continuous improvement to assure program quality An accountability implementation plan a beginning teacher mentoring program and a comparative study of beginning teacher performance were recommended to further enforce its strategies toward program accountability

Keywords

Teacher education, accountability, program quality

Meeting the Demand for Accountability: Case Study of a Teacher Education Program in China

Abstract

Keywords

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