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Is PACT a valid assessment of performance?

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Is PACT a valid assessment of performance?

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PACT claims that it assesses teachers’ actual teaching performance in “real world” contexts, rather than teachers’ knowledge about or dispositions towards teaching. It’s not quite so simple as that. Judgments about the quality of a piece of art-work or a player’s performance in a particular foot-ball game are examples of assessments where no inferences are necessarily made about underlying traits or skills that the products or observed behavior represent. (“It’s a wonderful painting,” not necessarily, “she’s a talented artist.”) In contrast, we are expected to make inferences from the TE about candidates’ ongoing qualities or competencies such as generalized planning or assessing skills.23 There are a number of reasons to question the validity of making inferences about candidates’ skills by observing a fifteen-minute video-tape of the TE, and then rating it according to the PACT protocol. I will suggest just a few. First, the fifteen- minute video-taped Teaching Event is highly contri

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