James Raths
Biographic Data
| ID | 1603509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Raths |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Raths |
| SIGNATURE | RATHS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Brief History of Standards in Teacher Education
With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon. However, as this pamphlet clearly demonstrates, while standards in American schools have a long history dating back to Reconstruction, the recommendations for what is needed to improve teacher education are remarkably similar—brighter students, more realistic classes, rigorous general education, serious evaluation, and so on. The reports and guidel…
Summative Evaluation of Student Teachers
This article proposes that teacher education faculty are not taking sufficient care in preventing weak, incompetent student teachers from attaining state licenses. Several factors that contribute to this problem are cited and discussed. One explanation accounting for the difficulty in withholding licensure from weak students is that the concept of incompetence is not sufficiently clear. Responding to this explanation, the authors make the followi…
Improving Instruction
Six Dilemmas in Teacher Education
The major issues of concern to those who have a stake in the preparation of teachers are discussed in terms of a set of six dilemmas: coverage versus mastery; evaluative versus affective emphases; emphasis on current versus future needs of candidates; thematic versus eclectic approaches; emphasis on current practice versus innovative practice; and specific versus global assessment criteria. These dilemmas are endemic to teacher education and may …
Dispositions as goals for teacher education
A Framework for Research on Teacher Education Programs
Katz and Raths present a framework for use in classifying and summarizing re search on teacher education programs. The framework serves as a heuristic for investigating and identifying critical re search questions vis-a-vis teacher prep aration. Eleven interacting parameters within the framework contain a wide range of variables, including (a) pro gram goals, (b) characteristics of teacher education candidates, (c) characteristics of faculty and …
NCATE and Interstate Certification
Does NCATE accreditation foster the transfer of teacher certification from one state to another? Raths and his col leagues argue that the answer is "no." Indeed, with but one exception, graduates of institutions in states with out reciprocity agreements would not be denied certification in other states solely on the basis that their preparing institu tion lacked NCATE accreditation. Fur thermore, as individual states add more specialized requirem…
Testing Teachers
Following the lead of legislative bodies and school boards nationwide, the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) recently recommended that &dquo;all applicants for a teaching, administrative, and school personnel certi- ficate issued by the State Teacher Certification Board satisfactorily pass (1) a proficiency examination on basic communication and mathematics skills and (2) a proficiency examination in the major field of the desired teac…
Teacher Education in Multicultural Settings
Follow-up Studies
Suggested Standards for General Education
One Step Ahead CRYCON
School Evaluation
Dispositions as goals for teacher education
Follow-up Studies
Testing Teachers
Following the lead of legislative bodies and school boards nationwide, the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) recently recommended that &dquo;all applicants for a teaching, administrative, and school personnel certi- ficate issued by the State Teacher Certification Board satisfactorily pass (1) a proficiency examination on basic communication and mathematics skills and (2) a proficiency examination in the major field of the desired teac…
A Framework for Research on Teacher Education Programs
Katz and Raths present a framework for use in classifying and summarizing re search on teacher education programs. The framework serves as a heuristic for investigating and identifying critical re search questions vis-a-vis teacher prep aration. Eleven interacting parameters within the framework contain a wide range of variables, including (a) pro gram goals, (b) characteristics of teacher education candidates, (c) characteristics of faculty and …
Six Dilemmas in Teacher Education
The major issues of concern to those who have a stake in the preparation of teachers are discussed in terms of a set of six dilemmas: coverage versus mastery; evaluative versus affective emphases; emphasis on current versus future needs of candidates; thematic versus eclectic approaches; emphasis on current practice versus innovative practice; and specific versus global assessment criteria. These dilemmas are endemic to teacher education and may …
Summative Evaluation of Student Teachers
This article proposes that teacher education faculty are not taking sufficient care in preventing weak, incompetent student teachers from attaining state licenses. Several factors that contribute to this problem are cited and discussed. One explanation accounting for the difficulty in withholding licensure from weak students is that the concept of incompetence is not sufficiently clear. Responding to this explanation, the authors make the followi…
Improving Instruction
Suggested Standards for General Education
School Evaluation
One Step Ahead CRYCON
Suggested Standards for General Education
Follow-up Studies
Teacher Education in Multicultural Settings
Testing Teachers
Following the lead of legislative bodies and school boards nationwide, the Illinois Association of School Boards (IASB) recently recommended that &dquo;all applicants for a teaching, administrative, and school personnel certi- ficate issued by the State Teacher Certification Board satisfactorily pass (1) a proficiency examination on basic communication and mathematics skills and (2) a proficiency examination in the major field of the desired teac…
Dispositions as goals for teacher education
A Framework for Research on Teacher Education Programs
Katz and Raths present a framework for use in classifying and summarizing re search on teacher education programs. The framework serves as a heuristic for investigating and identifying critical re search questions vis-a-vis teacher prep aration. Eleven interacting parameters within the framework contain a wide range of variables, including (a) pro gram goals, (b) characteristics of teacher education candidates, (c) characteristics of faculty and …
NCATE and Interstate Certification
Does NCATE accreditation foster the transfer of teacher certification from one state to another? Raths and his col leagues argue that the answer is "no." Indeed, with but one exception, graduates of institutions in states with out reciprocity agreements would not be denied certification in other states solely on the basis that their preparing institu tion lacked NCATE accreditation. Fur thermore, as individual states add more specialized requirem…
Six Dilemmas in Teacher Education
The major issues of concern to those who have a stake in the preparation of teachers are discussed in terms of a set of six dilemmas: coverage versus mastery; evaluative versus affective emphases; emphasis on current versus future needs of candidates; thematic versus eclectic approaches; emphasis on current practice versus innovative practice; and specific versus global assessment criteria. These dilemmas are endemic to teacher education and may …
Improving Instruction
Summative Evaluation of Student Teachers
This article proposes that teacher education faculty are not taking sufficient care in preventing weak, incompetent student teachers from attaining state licenses. Several factors that contribute to this problem are cited and discussed. One explanation accounting for the difficulty in withholding licensure from weak students is that the concept of incompetence is not sufficiently clear. Responding to this explanation, the authors make the followi…
A Brief History of Standards in Teacher Education
With the current emphasis on standards in the schools, one may think that this is a new phenomenon. However, as this pamphlet clearly demonstrates, while standards in American schools have a long history dating back to Reconstruction, the recommendations for what is needed to improve teacher education are remarkably similar—brighter students, more realistic classes, rigorous general education, serious evaluation, and so on. The reports and guidel…
Mathematics education (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Teacher education (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (3 works) · Law (3 works)