Teacher Leadership: An Assessment Framework for an Emerging Area of Professional Practice. Research Report. ETS RR-10-27

Table of Contents

• Teresa Jackson 1
• Jeremy Burrus 1
• Katherine Bassett 1
• Richard D. Roberts 1
• Teacher Leadership 2
• An Assessment Framework for an Emerging Area of Professional Practice 2
• Abstract 4
• Acknowledgments 5
• Table of Contents 6
• List of Tables 8
• Background 9
• Table 1 10
• Definitions of teacher leadership 10
• Definition Source 10
• Table 2 11
• The potential benefits of teacher leadership York-Barr Duke 2004 11
• Defining Teacher Leadership and its Components 13
• Key Roles of Teacher Leaders Coaching and Learning Team Facilitators 14
• What are the Personal Skills of Teacher Leaders 15
• Work ethic. 16
• Teamwork. 16
• Leadership. 16
• Openness. 16
• Vision 16
• Positive affect 16
• Risk taking 17
• Teaching related skills. 17
• Table 3 17
• Personal skills associated with teacher leadership 17
• Work Ethic Teamwork 17
• Leadership Openness 17
• Leadership cont. Openness cont. 18
• Positive Affect 18
• Risk Taking Vision 18
• Teaching Related 18
• Cultural and Structural Conditions that Influence Teacher Leadership 18
• Table 4 19
• Cultural and structural conditions that influence teacher leadership after Institute for 19
• Educational Leadership 2008 19
• Condition Examples Cited From 19
• Social Culture Context 19
• Interpersonal 19
• Structures 19
• A Review of the Empirical Research on Teacher Leadership 20
• An Assessment Framework for Teacher Leadership 20
• Traditional Assessment Methods 21
• Self-assessment. 21
• Other ratings. 23
• Situational Judgment Tests SJT. 23
• Authentic Assessment 24
• Setting standards. 24
• Creating tasks. 24
• Defining criteria. 26
• Creating rubrics. 26
• Knowledge Assessment 26
• Validation of Teacher Leadership Assessments 27
• Figure 1. 28
• Hypothesized empirical relationships interpretive argument and possible 28
• Scoring. 29
• Table 5 29
• Interpretive argument for teacher leadership adapted from Kane 2006 29
• Generalization. 30
• Extrapolation. 31
• Implication. 33
• Validation Examples 33
• Authentic Assessment Validation Example Video Demonstration of Mentoring Skills 34
• Table 6 34
• Validity evidence for teacher leadership example assessments. 34
• Example Assessments 34
• Argument Component 34
• Authentic Assessment Video demonstration of mentoring skills Traditional Assessment Self-report of work ethic 34
• Traditional Assessment Validation Example Self-report of Work Ethic 35
• Other Validation Considerations 36
• Conclusion 37
• References 38
• Appendix A 44
• Kansas Teacher Leader Standards 44
• Standard 1 Standard 2 44
• Standard 3 Standard 4 45
• Standard 5 Standard 6 46
• Standard 7 Standard 8 47
• Appendix B 48
• What Makes an Assessment 48
• Authentic 48
• Tasks 48
• Physical context 48
• Social context 48
• Assessment results or form 48
• Criteria and standards 49