NCTQ seems more concerned with inputs than with outputs. Isn the bottom line whether or not an institution is producing effective teachers?
The quality of teachers an institution produces is critically important. One of NCTQ’s standards is whether education schools are using data on the performance of their graduates to improve their programs. Unfortunately, only a few states currently have data systems designed to provide this information Louisiana and Florida, for example. In states where it is not yet possible to apply this standard, we are evaluating whether education schools are at least using other sources of data on the performance and retention of their graduates from surrounding school districts. Once output data on the effectiveness of a program’s graduates becomes more available, however, it’s not clear that we’ll learn as much as is hoped. We’ll certainly know more about the effectiveness of one education school relative to others. We’ll know who is doing a better job in reading or mathematics relative to others. But we won’t learn what value education schools should be adding relative to the highest possible p
