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Article: Personality characteristics and teacher beliefs among pre-service teachers.(Report)
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- Teacher Education Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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Teacher education is at a cross-road. Public interest in school reform has increased and teacher education has been rediscovered as a "problem" in policy circles (Cochran-Smith, 2005). With this heightened visibility there exists a press, on the national level, for evidence and answers concerning the effects of teacher preparation on future teacher quality. Bransford, Darling-Hammond, and Lepage (2005) offer a framework for conducting research on teacher preparation that points out a critical need for research on "how teachers learn to engage in practices that successfully support student development and learning" (p. 23). Our investigation is consistent with this goal. ...