NCATE: A Study of the Accreditation Process.

Autor/in	Newman, George Charles
Titel	NCATE: A Study of the Accreditation Process.
Quelle	In: Innovator, 8 (1976) 2, (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Accreditation (Institutions); Decision Making; Educational Assessment; Educational Research; Institutional Research; Planning; Program Evaluation; Schools of Education; Self Evaluation; Standards; Teacher Education; Teacher Educators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Institutionelle Forschung; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Standard; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Teacher education
Abstract	This report examines how the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) process might be utilized in an institutional research format to bring about future formalized assessment and planning in undergraduate and graduate teacher education. With the focus on the recent NCATE reaccreditation process at the University of Michigan's School of Education, this report first examines the accreditation process an institution undergoes in order to determine the quality of its programs, and second, develops a framework and rationale whereby the information compiled for accrediting purposes can be further utilized by the institution to evaluate itself. The data contained in an NCATE study represent institutional information that can be analyzed further to serve as the basis for decision-making and for the evaluation of teachers. The objective of institutional research is to utilize data or manage information so that it can be evaluated and used to plan institutional change. The differences, then, between accreditation and institutional research lie in the fact that accrediting institutions such as NCATE are mainly concerned with evaluating procedural data and comparing it with prescribed and established standards, whereas institutional research is a way of gathering data on the various components of an institution and then managing or analysing it in order to make a realistic design concerning the present or the future of the institution. NCATE hopes that the data accumulated through its accreditation process will in the future be used for institutional research and self-study. (MM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC