David A Gamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1605407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Gamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamson |
| SIGNATURE | GAMSON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty
David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty: Aspirations, Effects, and Limitations, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty and Beyond (December 2015), pp. 1-29
Assessing the Cognitive Demands of a Century of Reading Curricula
This research investigated the cognitive demands of reading curricula from 1910 to 2000. We considered both the nature of the text used and the comprehension tasks asked of students in determining the cognitive demands of the curricula. Contrary to the common assumption of a trend of simplification of the texts and comprehension tasks in third- and sixth-grade curricula, the results indicate that curricular complexity declined early in the centur…
School-Based Teacher Learning
The theme of this issue of Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) focuses on theory, people, processes, and outcomes related to teacher learning in school-based settings. Teacher educators and researchers agree that externally driven, isolated workshops and conferences have produced little impact on inservice teacher learning and change (Gallimore, Emeling, Saunders, & Goldenberg, 2009; Hawley & Valli, 1999). In contrast, when professional developmen…
Reconceptualizing Teacher Quality to Inform Preservice and Inservice Professional Development
In the previous issue, Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Ana Maria Villegas provided Part One of two JTE articles based on their chapter in the upcoming fifth edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching (Cochran-Smith et al., in press). Their handbook chapter presents the findings from the review of 1,500 teacher education research studies published between 2000 and 2012. Part One of the two articles described the procedures and theoretical framework…
Taking Stock in 2015
In this issue, Marilyn Cochran-Smith provides the first of two Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) articles based on her chapter in the upcoming fifth edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching (Cochran-Smith, Villegas, Abrams, Chavez Moreno, Mills, & Stern, in press). Her handbook chapter presents the findings from the review of 1,500 teacher education research studies published between 2000 and 2012. JTE is publishing the review in two part…
Five-Year Retrospective
We have just completed 5 years as editors of Journal of Teacher Education (JTE), having published four full volumes (63-66) and part of one (62), and will hand over the privilege and responsibility to a new team from Michigan State University in the next issue. In one of our first editorials (Knight et al., 2012), we reflected on how views of teacher education research from both within and outside the profession influenced our vision for the jour…
Contextualizing Versus Internationalizing Research on Teacher Education
At our first Journal Editor's Roundtable for Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) 5 years ago at the Educational Research Association (AERA) after assuming the editorship in 2010, we engaged in discussion with various attendees about the nature of the journal and our vision for the duration of our term as editors. We received several questions about whether we accepted international manuscripts because we were perceived by many to be a unique Ameri…
Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks
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Professional Development and Practices of Teacher Educators
Journal of Teacher Education's (JTE) Major Forum at the 2013 AACTE Annual Meeting (Knight, Edmondson, Hollins, Imig, & Gitomer, 2013) focused on the current and future preparation of educators. The topic attracted a large audience and the presenters generated a great deal of interest among attendees. However, from questions and comments, it was clear that while some in the audience considered teacher education a separate area of study, others con…
Performance Assessment of Teaching
Recent challenges concerning the quality of teachers and the programs that prepare them have resulted in responses from professional organizations that have been more widespread and intense than in the past (Robinson, 2011; Wiseman, 2012). The Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation (BRP) formed by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the merger of NCATE and Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) into…
Taking Stock in 2014
In preparation for JTE's Major Forum at the 2014 AACTE Annual Meeting, Taking Charge of Change, the editorial team engaged in a series of discussions about their perceptions of change in the teacher education knowledge base over the past 10-15 years. We noted that the intended goal of several major reports published during this time period was to impact the nature and quality of education research in general and teacher education research in part…
Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for raising the level of text complexity in textbooks and reading materials used by students across all grade levels in the United States; the authors of the English Language Arts component of the CCSS build their case for higher complexity in part upon a research base they say shows a steady decline in the difficulty of student reading textbooks over the past half century. In this interd…
District Progressivism
This paper reexamines the analytic categories that American educational historians have used to describe progressive era reformers and their innovations. Using archival sources and other school district records, this essay analyzes the nature of school reform in three United States cities: Seattle, Washington, Oakland, California, and Denver, Colorado during the early decades of the twentieth century. The author argues that educational leaders in…
Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for raising the level of text complexity in textbooks and reading materials used by students across all grade levels in the United States; the authors of the English Language Arts component of the CCSS build their case for higher complexity in part upon a research base they say shows a steady decline in the difficulty of student reading textbooks over the past half century. In this interd…
Professional Development and Practices of Teacher Educators
Journal of Teacher Education's (JTE) Major Forum at the 2013 AACTE Annual Meeting (Knight, Edmondson, Hollins, Imig, & Gitomer, 2013) focused on the current and future preparation of educators. The topic attracted a large audience and the presenters generated a great deal of interest among attendees. However, from questions and comments, it was clear that while some in the audience considered teacher education a separate area of study, others con…
Reconceptualizing Teacher Quality to Inform Preservice and Inservice Professional Development
In the previous issue, Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Ana Maria Villegas provided Part One of two JTE articles based on their chapter in the upcoming fifth edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching (Cochran-Smith et al., in press). Their handbook chapter presents the findings from the review of 1,500 teacher education research studies published between 2000 and 2012. Part One of the two articles described the procedures and theoretical framework…
Performance Assessment of Teaching
Recent challenges concerning the quality of teachers and the programs that prepare them have resulted in responses from professional organizations that have been more widespread and intense than in the past (Robinson, 2011; Wiseman, 2012). The Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation (BRP) formed by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the merger of NCATE and Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) into…
District Progressivism
This paper reexamines the analytic categories that American educational historians have used to describe progressive era reformers and their innovations. Using archival sources and other school district records, this essay analyzes the nature of school reform in three United States cities: Seattle, Washington, Oakland, California, and Denver, Colorado during the early decades of the twentieth century. The author argues that educational leaders in…
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty
David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty: Aspirations, Effects, and Limitations, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty and Beyond (December 2015), pp. 1-29
Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks
Preview this article: Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks: Changes over the past century, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ijcl.19.1.04lu-1.gif
Assessing the Cognitive Demands of a Century of Reading Curricula
This research investigated the cognitive demands of reading curricula from 1910 to 2000. We considered both the nature of the text used and the comprehension tasks asked of students in determining the cognitive demands of the curricula. Contrary to the common assumption of a trend of simplification of the texts and comprehension tasks in third- and sixth-grade curricula, the results indicate that curricular complexity declined early in the centur…
District Progressivism
This paper reexamines the analytic categories that American educational historians have used to describe progressive era reformers and their innovations. Using archival sources and other school district records, this essay analyzes the nature of school reform in three United States cities: Seattle, Washington, Oakland, California, and Denver, Colorado during the early decades of the twentieth century. The author argues that educational leaders in…
Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards
The widely adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) call for raising the level of text complexity in textbooks and reading materials used by students across all grade levels in the United States; the authors of the English Language Arts component of the CCSS build their case for higher complexity in part upon a research base they say shows a steady decline in the difficulty of student reading textbooks over the past half century. In this interd…
Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks
Preview this article: Lexical difficulty and diversity of American elementary school reading textbooks: Changes over the past century, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ijcl.19.1.04lu-1.gif
Professional Development and Practices of Teacher Educators
Journal of Teacher Education's (JTE) Major Forum at the 2013 AACTE Annual Meeting (Knight, Edmondson, Hollins, Imig, & Gitomer, 2013) focused on the current and future preparation of educators. The topic attracted a large audience and the presenters generated a great deal of interest among attendees. However, from questions and comments, it was clear that while some in the audience considered teacher education a separate area of study, others con…
Performance Assessment of Teaching
Recent challenges concerning the quality of teachers and the programs that prepare them have resulted in responses from professional organizations that have been more widespread and intense than in the past (Robinson, 2011; Wiseman, 2012). The Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Preparation (BRP) formed by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the merger of NCATE and Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) into…
Taking Stock in 2014
In preparation for JTE's Major Forum at the 2014 AACTE Annual Meeting, Taking Charge of Change, the editorial team engaged in a series of discussions about their perceptions of change in the teacher education knowledge base over the past 10-15 years. We noted that the intended goal of several major reports published during this time period was to impact the nature and quality of education research in general and teacher education research in part…
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty
David A. Gamson, Kathryn A. McDermott, Douglas S. Reed, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty: Aspirations, Effects, and Limitations, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 3, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act at Fifty and Beyond (December 2015), pp. 1-29
Assessing the Cognitive Demands of a Century of Reading Curricula
This research investigated the cognitive demands of reading curricula from 1910 to 2000. We considered both the nature of the text used and the comprehension tasks asked of students in determining the cognitive demands of the curricula. Contrary to the common assumption of a trend of simplification of the texts and comprehension tasks in third- and sixth-grade curricula, the results indicate that curricular complexity declined early in the centur…
School-Based Teacher Learning
The theme of this issue of Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) focuses on theory, people, processes, and outcomes related to teacher learning in school-based settings. Teacher educators and researchers agree that externally driven, isolated workshops and conferences have produced little impact on inservice teacher learning and change (Gallimore, Emeling, Saunders, & Goldenberg, 2009; Hawley & Valli, 1999). In contrast, when professional developmen…
Reconceptualizing Teacher Quality to Inform Preservice and Inservice Professional Development
In the previous issue, Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Ana Maria Villegas provided Part One of two JTE articles based on their chapter in the upcoming fifth edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching (Cochran-Smith et al., in press). Their handbook chapter presents the findings from the review of 1,500 teacher education research studies published between 2000 and 2012. Part One of the two articles described the procedures and theoretical framework…
Taking Stock in 2015
In this issue, Marilyn Cochran-Smith provides the first of two Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) articles based on her chapter in the upcoming fifth edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching (Cochran-Smith, Villegas, Abrams, Chavez Moreno, Mills, & Stern, in press). Her handbook chapter presents the findings from the review of 1,500 teacher education research studies published between 2000 and 2012. JTE is publishing the review in two part…
Five-Year Retrospective
We have just completed 5 years as editors of Journal of Teacher Education (JTE), having published four full volumes (63-66) and part of one (62), and will hand over the privilege and responsibility to a new team from Michigan State University in the next issue. In one of our first editorials (Knight et al., 2012), we reflected on how views of teacher education research from both within and outside the profession influenced our vision for the jour…
Contextualizing Versus Internationalizing Research on Teacher Education
At our first Journal Editor's Roundtable for Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) 5 years ago at the Educational Research Association (AERA) after assuming the editorship in 2010, we engaged in discussion with various attendees about the nature of the journal and our vision for the duration of our term as editors. We received several questions about whether we accepted international manuscripts because we were perceived by many to be a unique Ameri…
Psychology (12 works) · Mathematics education (10 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Teacher education (7 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (7 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (6 works) · Professional development (5 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (4 works)