| Inquiry Brief
The Inquiry Brief is a research monograph in which the faculty and administrators present evidence supporting their claim that their program satisfies TEAC’s three quality principles and standards for capacity: evidence of their students’ learning, evidence that their assessment of student learning is valid, evidence that the program’s continuous improve-ment and quality control are based on information about its students’ learning, and evidence of the program’s capacity for quality.
Through the Inquiry Brief, the program faculty members present qualitative or quan-titative evidence that their graduates are competent, qualified, and caring and that the institution has the capacity to offer a quality program.
The program faculty members document the evidence about what their graduates have learned, the validity of their assessment of that learning, and the basis on which program faculty makes its decisions to improve the program. Faculty members must show that they have a valid method for determining what their students have learned and accomplished. Then they must show that their students have learned the subject matter they will teach, the pedagogical subject matters of the field of education, and, most impor-tant, that their students can teach effectively.
For more details, see Inquiry Brief Content |
Inquiry Brief Proposal
Faculty members representing new programs or programs that are in the process of collecting evidence for their claims may submit for preaccreditation an Inquiry Brief Proposal, in which they propose the method by which they will find the evidence that will show that their graduates are competent, qualified, and caring, and that the program meets TEAC’s three quality principles and standards for capacity.
The Inquiry Brief Proposal is appropriate for 1) new pro-grams, 2) programs that have been significantly revised in recent years, or 3) programs that do not yet have sufficient evidence for faculty claims of student learning but have evidence of capacity for program quality.
The program also has evidence of a sound quality control system, evidence that the institution is committed to the program, and a plan and rationale for acquiring evidence over time to support its claims.
For more details, see Inquiry Brief Proposal Content. |
