What We Know and Don’t Know from Peer-Reviewed Research about Alternative Teacher Certification Programs
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Teacher Education
- Vol. 52 (4), 266-282
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487101052004002
Abstract
This article examines the peer-reviewed literature on alternative teacher certification programs in the United States to see what can be concluded about who participates in these programs, where participants teach, how long participants stay, how participants’ teaching is evaluated, and how well participants are able to promote student learning.Keywords
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