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Guiding Literature

Assessment High Leverage Practices (HLP) in teaching
Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) Practice-based Teacher Education
Simulations

Assessment

Black, P., & Wiliam, D. (1998). Assessment and classroom learning. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy, and Practice, 5(1), 7-74.

Darling-Hammond, L. & Pecheone, R. (2010). Developing an internationally comparable balanced assessment system that supports high-quality learning.  Retrieved from http://www.k12center.org/publications.html.

Darling-Hammond, L. & Snyder, J. (2000). Authentic assessment of teaching in context. Teaching and Teacher Education, 16, 523-545.

McMillan, J. (2010). Classroom Assessment: Principles and practices for effective instruction (5th edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Messick, S. (1994). The interplay of evidence and consequences in the validation of performance assessments. Educational Researcher, 23(2), 13-23.

Mislevy, R. J., Almond, R. G., & Lukas, J. F. (2004). A brief introduction to evidence-centered design (CSE Technical Report 632). Los Angeles: National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), Center for the Study of Evaluation, UCLA. Retrieved on November 1 from http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/reports/r632.pdf.

Mislevy, R. J., Hamel, L., Fried, R., Garrney, T., Haertel, G., Hafter, A. et al. (2003). Design patterns for assessing science inquiry (PADI Technical Report 1). Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Mislevy, R. J., Riconscente, M., & Rutstein, D. W. (2009). Design patterns for assessing model-based reasoning (PADI Technical Report 6). Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Moss, P. A. (2010). Thinking systematically about assessment practice. In M. Kennedy (Ed.) Teacher assessment and the quest for teacher quality: A handbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 355–374.

Moss, P., Boerst, T., & Duckor, B. (2008). Developing an Integrated Assessment System (DIAS) in elementary mathematics teacher education: Constructing and interpreting records of practice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. (2003). Assessing education candidate performance: A look at changing practices. Washington, D.C.: Author.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (1995). Assessment standards for school mathematics. Reston, VA: Author.

National Research Council (NRC). (2001b). Knowing what students know: The science and design of educational assessment. Committee on the Foundations of Assessment. Pelligrino, J., Chudowsky, N., and Glaser, R., editors. Board on Testing and Assessment, Center for Education. Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Pecheone, R., & Chung, R. (2006). Evidence in teacher education: The performance assessment for California Teachers (PACT). Journal of Teacher Education, 57(1), 22-36.

Wiliam, D. (2010). An integrative summary of the research literature and implications for a new theory of formative assessment. In H. Andrade, & G. Cizek (Eds.), Handbook of formative assessment (pp. 18-40). New York, NY: Routledge.

High Leverage Practices (HLP) in teaching

Ball, D. L., & Forzani, F. M. (2009). The work of teaching and the challenge for teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 60(5), 497-511.

Ball, D. L., Sleep, L., Boerst, T., & Bass, H. (2009). Combining the development of practice and the practice of development in teacher education. Elementary School Journal. Vol. 109, No. 5, 458-474.

Boerst, T., Sleep, L, Ball, D. L., & Bass, H. (2011). Preparing teachers to lead mathematics discussions.  Teachers College Record. Vol. 113, No. 12, 2844-2877.

Moyer, P. & Milewicz, E. (2002) Learning to question: Categories of questioning used by preservice teachers during diagnostic mathematics interview. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education. 5, 293–315.

Teacher Education Initiative. (2009). High-leverage teaching practices (report revised 3/27/09). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Curriculum Group.

TeachingWorks, (2011). High leverage teaching practices. Retrieved October 13, 2012, from http://www.teachingworks.org/work-of-teaching/high-leverage-practices.

Sleep, L., & Boerst, T. (2012). Preparing beginning teachers to elicit and interpret students’ mathematical thinking, Teaching and Teacher Education. Vol. 28, No. 7, 1038-1048.

Sleep, L. & Boerst, T. (2006). A different slice of practice: Helping preservice teachers navigate the complexities of practice of teaching mathematics through routine engagement in high leverage tasks of teaching. Annual meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Tampa, FL.

Wood, Terry. Alternative patterns of communication in mathematics classes: Funneling or focusing?” In Language and Communication in the Mathematics Classroom, edited by Heinz Steinbring, Maria G. Bartolini Bussi, and Anna Sierpinska, pp. 167–78. Reston, Va.: NCTM, 1998.

Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT)

Ball, D. L., Lubienski, S., & Mewborn, D. (2001). Research on teaching mathematics: The unsolved problem of teachers’ mathematical knowledge. In V. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of research on teaching (4th ed., pp. 433-456). New York: Macmillan.

Ball, D. L., Thames, M. H., & Phelps, G. (2008). Content knowledge for teaching: What makes it special? Journal of Teacher Education, 59(5), 389-407.

Learning Mathematics for Teaching. (2008). LMT measures of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Elementary Number Concepts and Operations, 2008.  Ann Arbor, MI:  Authors.

Ma, L. (1999). Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

National Research Council (NRC). (2001a). Adding it up: Helping children learn mathematics. J. Kilpatrick, J. Swafford & B. Findell (Eds). Mathematics Learning Study Committee, Center for Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Science and Education. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Practice-based Teacher Education

Ball, D. & Forzani, F.  (2009).  The work of teaching and the challenge for teacher education. Journal of Teacher Education, 60(5), 497-511

Ball, D. L. (1990). Prospective elementary and secondary teachers’ understandings of division. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 21, 132-144.

Ball, D. & Cohen, D. (1999). Developing practice, developing practitioners. In L. Darling-Hammond and G. Sykes (Eds), Teaching as the learning profession. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass: 3-32.

Boerst, T., Sleep, L., Ball, D. L., & Cole, Y. (2008). Practice as evidence of learning: Using performance assessments in a mathematics methods course. Annual meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Tulsa, OK.

Davis, B. & Boerst, T.  (2014).  Designing elementary teacher education to prepare well-started beginners.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: Teaching Works Working Papers. Retrieved from http://www.teachingworks.org/images/files/TeachingWorks_Davis_Boerst_WorkingPapers_March_2014.pdf

Davis, E. A., & Nelson, M. (2011). Using approximations of practice in elementary science teacher education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans.

Grossman, P. (2010). Learning to practice: The design of clinical experience in teacher preparation. AACTE & NEA policy brief.

Grossman, P., Compton, C., Igra, D., Ronfeldt, M., Shahan, E., & Williamson, P. (2009). Teaching practice: A cross-professional perspective. Teachers College Record, 111(9).

Hammerness, K., Darling-Hammond, L., & Bransford, J. (2005). How teachers learn and develop. Preparing teachers for a changing world: What teachers should learn and be able to do. In L. Darling-Hammond and J. Bransford (Eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 358–389.

Kazemi, E., Ghousseini, H., Beasley, H., Lampert, M., & Franke, M. (2011). Examining the use of rehearsals to support novice teachers’ ambitious teaching, at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual research Pre-session Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Lampert, M., Franke, M., Kazemi, E., Ghousseini, H., Turrou, A.C., Beasley, H., Cunard, A., & Crowe, K. (2013).  Keeping it complex: Using rehearsals to support novice teacher learning of ambitious teaching in elementary mathematics.  Journal of Teacher Education, 64, 226-243.

Lampert, M., & Graziani, F. (2009). Instructional activities as a tool for teachers’ and teacher educators’ learning. The Elementary School Journal, 109(5), 491-507.

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). (2010). Transforming Teacher Education through Clinical Practice: A National Strategy to Prepare Effective Teachers. Washington, D.C.: Author.

National Council on Teaching and America’s Future (2010). Who will teach? Experience matters. Washington, DC: NCTAF.

National Commission on Teacher Quality (2008). No common denominator: The preparation of elementary teachers in mathematics by America’s education schools. Washington, DC: NCTQ.

National Commission on Teacher Quality (2011). Standards for national review of teacher preparation. Retrieved December 20, 2011, from http://www.nctq.org/standardsDisplay.do.

National Mathematics Advisory Panel. (2008). Foundations for Success. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.

Policy Studies Associates (2005). Teacher quality and student achievement: At a glance. The Center for Public Education website. Retrieved November 20, 2012, from http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Staffingstudents/Teacher-quality-and-student-achievement-At-a-glance.

Schutz, K. M. (2011). Learning to teach amidst the buzz: An elementary literacy methods course. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans.

Shaughnessy, M. M., Boerst, T., & Ball, D. L. (2014, April). Eliciting and interpreting of students’ thinking: What skills do those entering the teaching profession bring?. Presented at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2014 Research Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Sleep, L. & Boerst, T. (2006). A different slice of practice: Helping preservice teachers navigate the complexities of practice of teaching mathematics through routine engagement in high leverage tasks of teaching. Annual meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Tampa, FL.

Sleep, L., & Boerst, T. (2012). Preparing beginning teachers to elicit and interpret students’ mathematical thinking. Teaching and Teacher Education. Vol. 28, No. 7, 1038-1048.

Simulations

Boulet J, Smee S., Dillon, G, Gimpel, J. (2009). The use of standardized patient assessments for certification and licensure decisions. Simulations in Healthcare Spring, 4(1), 35-42.

Coplan, B., Essary, A., Lohenry, K., & Stoehr, J. D. (2008). An update on the utilization of standardized patients in physician assistant education. The Journal of Physician Assistant Education, 19(4), 14-19.

Dieker, L.A., Straub, C., Hughes, C. E., Hynes ,M. C.  & Hardin, M. C. (2014). Virtual environments can take us virtually anywhere. Educational Leadership, 71(8), 54-58.

Dotger, B. H. (2014). Beyond, Tears, Tirades, and Tantrums: Clinical Simulations for School Leader Development. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Dotger, B. H. (2015). Core pedagogy: Individual uncertainty, shared practice, formative ethos. Journal of Teacher Education, 66(3), 216-226.

Dotger, B. & Sapon-Shevin, M. (2009).  But what do I say? Educational Leadership, (66).  Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer09/vol66/num09/But-What-Do-I-Say%C2%A2.aspx

Hayden, J. K., Smilet, r.A., Alexander, M., Kardong-Edgren, S., & Jeffries, P.R. (2014). The NCSBN National Simulation Study: A longitudinal, randomized controlled study replacing clinical hours with simulation in prelicensure nursing education. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 5, S1-S64.

Society for Simulation in Healthcare (2012) What is simulation? accessed November 21, 2012 from http://ssih.org/about-simulation.

Simon, S. M., & Landsman, M. S. (1995). Judicial ethics simulation based training. Law and Contemporary Problems, 58(3/4), 323-336.

Walker, J. & Dotger, B. (2011).  Because wisdom can’t be told; Using comparison of simulated parent-teacher conferences to assess teacher candidates’ readiness for family-school partnership. Journal of Teacher Education, 63(1), 62-75. doi: 10.1177/0022487111419300

Wilford & Doyle (2006). Integrating simulation training into the nursing curriculum. British Journal of Nursing, 15(11), 604-607.

Yoshida, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Wakabayashi, K., Nagashima, K., Takeshige, F., Kawamoto, Y., Noborio, H., & Sohmura, T. (2009). Virtual reality simulation training for dental surgery. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 142, 435-437.