Certification policy: reflections based on the Chilean case of the INICIA test for beginner teachers.

Autor/inn/en	Aravena, Felipe; Quiroga, Marta
Titel	Certification policy: reflections based on the Chilean case of the INICIA test for beginner teachers. Paralleltitel: Politika certificiranja: refleksije, osnovane na cilskem primeru testa INICIA za ucitelje zacetnike.
Quelle	In: CEPS journal, 8 (2018) 4, S. 29-46Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1855-9719; 2232-2647
DOI	10.26529/cepsj.558
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-161859
Schlagwörter	Wissen; Evaluation; Test; Bildungssystem; Bildungspolitik; Lehramtsstudent; Lehrerausbildung; Diskursanalyse; Qualität; Zertifizierung; Berufsanfänger; Chile
Abstract	The main purpose of this paper is to analyse a specific educational policy in a national context: INICIA (In Spanish: Start) in Chile. Enacted in 2008, this policy evaluates beginning teachers at the national level before they start their professional careers in schools. The INICIA has been categorised as a certification policy to measure what teachers know in relation to a certain disciplinary area. At present, INICIA is voluntary for beginning teachers. However, due to policy changes, a passing score on it will soon be necessary to become a nationally qualified teacher in Chile. Through a holistic analysis of the policy, we develop a complex picture of the problem INICIA generates as a requirement for certification. According to our analysis, INICIA has been misunderstood as a policy that provides quantitative and qualitative information about a teacher's performance. In actuality, INICIA merely provides information about a specific moment in a teacher's professional development and cannot be used as a predictor of future performance. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2019/2