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The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) was founded in 1997 as an alternative approach to accreditation of teacher education in the United States. It combines an innovative focus on student learning and an evidence-based audit method. Its review process is supported by detailed protocols, well-defined visits, a strict separation between the auditor role and the summative evaluation role, and use of scholarly standards for reliability and validity. Programs must meet standards that focus on student learning and its use for academic planning and improvement, but they select what evidence to use in making their claims. This approach has allowed programs to gather detailed evidence that is both meaningful and useful for improvement. Today, with about 100 members and nine institutions that are accredited, TEAC competes for recognition with a long-established agency, but the two organizations share a common goal of offering public assurances about the strength of teacher education programs.
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El-Khawas, E. (2010). The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) in the USA. In: Dill, D., Beerkens, M. (eds) Public Policy for Academic Quality. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3754-1_3
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