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The Exploration of the Accreditation System of TEAC and Its Implications for the Evaluation of Teacher Education in Taiwan

This study explored the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) and the evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan-related issues that provide to educational authorities to implement the reference teacher education accreditation system in the future.
The quality of teacher education is one of the important factors which are connected with national development and competitiveness. In view of the fact that the evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan is important in determining quality of teacher education, improving the progress of teacher education program, and to pursue excellence of system. The study aims to explore TEAC and its implications for the evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan.
The study employs three methods of collecting data, including literature review, G. Z. F. Bereday's Comparative Method, and Delphi Method. So we use the methods to explore of TEAC and its implications for the evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan. According to the results, the following conclusions have been concluded:
1. Lacking of teacher education accreditation institutions dedicated units
2. Evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan lacks characteristics of self-evaluation
3. Evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan must be a standardized set of teacher education accreditation principles, objectives and process sequence
4. Evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan experts and members of the organization to be defined
5. Lacking of regular evaluation procedures and appeal procedures
6. Results of the using are the difference between TEAC and Evaluation of teacher education in Taiwan
Based upon the above conclusions, some suggestions have been raised by the researcher to play a solid basis for teacher education accreditation and to upgrade the quality of future institution.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0719110-115730
Date19 July 2010
CreatorsKao, Tzu-ting
ContributorsChing-Hwa, Tsai, Der-Long Fang, Jun-Chih, Liao, Pei-Yi, Chou
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0719110-115730
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