A Framework for Identifying Consensus: Agreement and Disagreement among Teacher Education Reform Documents.

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This study offers a framework for identifying areas of agreement and disagreement across eight recent teacher education reform documents. Researchers analyzed each document in relation to the reform principles proposed by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). They developed a rubric to assess whether the documents expressed agreement or disagreement with the NCTAF principles and, if so, to determine the extent of the agreement/disagreement. The analysis indicated that, based on means and standard deviations, two principles elicited the strongest agreement: that teacher education programs should (1) include strong disciplinary preparation that incorporates an understanding of a discipline's core concepts, structure, and tools of inquiry as a foundation for subject matter pedagogy and (2) seek to develop multicultural competence in their students. The principle that teacher education programs should add an additional year or two of graduate-level preparation b

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