Includes index.

The challenges of teacher effectiveness and quality worldwide / Gerald K. LeTendre, Alexander W. Wiseman -- The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) strategy on teacher statistics : developing effective measures of quantity and quality in education / Peter Wallet -- Measuring teachers' professional learning activities in international context / Motoko Akiba -- Regimes of teacher beliefs from a comparative and international perspective / Pablo Fraser, Sakiko Ikoma -- Unpacking teacher differences in Didaktik and curriculum traditions : trends from TIMSS 2003, 2007, and 2011 / Armend Tahirsylaj, Kristina Brezicha, Sakiko Ikoma -- Exploring novice teachers' core competencies / Kent Seidel, Jennifer Whitcomb -- Indicators of quality in teacher education : looking at features of teacher education from an international perspective / Karen Hammerness, Kirsti Klette -- The influence of teacher education on mathematics teaching knowledge : local implementation of global ideals / Maria Teresa Tatto, Michael Rodriguez, Yang Lu -- Building and sustaining a quality STEM teacher workforce : access to instructional leadership and the interruptions of educator turnover / Edward J. Fuller, Lindsey Schrott -- No teacher is an island : how social networks shape teacher quality / Kira J. Baker-Doyle -- Conceptual understandings of democracy and values as aspects of teacher quality : the case of teacher education in Sweden / Bjo<U+0308>rn A<U+030a>strand -- Teachers' responses to changes in teacher evaluation policy in Korea and the United States / Peter Youngs, Jihyun Kim, James Pippin -- Current trends in the framing of teacher qualities / Stephanie L. Knight, Richard A. Duschl -- World culture and teacher quality: consensus, convergence, and conflict / Gerald K. LeTendre, Alexander W. Wiseman.

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