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Recipe for Success: Building a Sustainable Quality Assurance System offers a practical and insightful guide to developing a robust, enduring quality assurance system within educator preparation programs. A strong quality assurance system is essential for documenting continuous improvement, demonstrating program effectiveness, and shaping the narrative surrounding educator preparation. Because such systems reflect the mission, vision, and identity of each institution, they vary widely—yet all serve as the foundational “DNA” that drives coherence, accountability, and innovation.
This book brings together chapters that examine the core components of high quality assurance work, including data quality, systematic and sustainable processes, and meaningful stakeholder engagement. Contributors explore how quality assurance systems inform policy at local, state, and national levels, challenging existing frameworks and critiquing prevailing research paradigms. They also analyze the dilemmas, tensions, and opportunities inherent in building systems that are both rigorous and responsive.
Recipe for Success provides educator preparation leaders, faculty, and policymakers with the tools and perspectives needed to design, refine, and sustain quality assurance systems that support excellence in teaching and learning.
Malina Monaco is the Senior Vice President for Accreditation at the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
Erin T. Horne is the Assistant Dean for Professional Education and Accreditation in the College of Education at NC State University.
Carla Tanguay is the Assistant Dean for Educator Preparation and Accreditation and a Clinical Associate Professor in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University.
Section One. Building a Quality Assurance System
Chapter 1. Parallel and Intersecting: Program and Unit Assessment in a Quality Assurance System; Ann McCoy, Karrie Snider, Michelle Conrad, Rene Burress, and Charlene Atkins
Chapter 2. Who Drives the Bus? Implementing Assessment Software for Quality Assurance; Laura Maki
Chapter 3. Annual Assessment of Program Learning Outcomes: Quality Assurance Takes a Team; Lori B. Doyle, Tanya M. Tarbutton, and Barbara B. Howard
Section Two. Addressing Equity in a Quality Assurance System
Chapter 4. The Development and Characteristics of a Quality Assurance System at a College of Education in a Hispanic Serving Institution; James A. Telese, Alma D. Rodriguez, Veronica L. Estrada, and Valerie Leija
Chapter 5. Building and Sustaining an Empowered Quality Assurance System; Susan Craig, Jeri Goswick, Zack Rice, and Laura Schisler
Chapter 6. Supporting Urban Educational Professionals from Admission to Completion; Alberto Lopez-Carrasquillo and Sandra Beyda-Lorie
Section Three. Collaboration and Capacity Building
Chapter 7. Educator Preparation Provider Collaboration: Engaging in-state Partners through a Network Improvement Community to Measure Completer and Employer Satisfaction; Joel Hanel and Jillian McGraw
Chapter 8. Collaborative Efforts for Equity: A Case Study in Statewide Teacher Education Policy; Beth Kania-Gosche, Ximena Uribe-Zarain, Mike McBride, Mark Hogrebe, and Shivasankalp Shivaprakash
Chapter 9. Accreditation Self-Study: The Development of a Community of Practice through a Qualitative Inquiry; April Nelms, James Zoll, Westry Whitaker, Katherine Rose Adams, Diana Chang, Donna L. Governor, Kelly L. McFaden, Kellie Whelan-Kim, and Sheri C. Hardee
Chapter 10. Optimizing Scholarly Potential: Leveraging Accreditation for Faculty Scholarship; Donna Wake and Malina Monaco
Section Four. Data Quality and Continuous Improvement
Chapter 11. Policy and Practice in Implementing a High-Stakes External Assessment; Myra Watson and George Nickles
Chapter 12. Evaluating an Elementary Education Science Methods Performance Assessment through a Validity Inquiry Process; Martha Canipe, Cynthia Conn, Kathy Bohan, and Beau Vezino
Chapter 13. Exploring Completers’ Contributions to Student Growth: Combining Surveys, Interviews, Artifacts, and Evidence in a Case Study Design; Julie Dallavis, Anne Roycroft, Kati Macaluso, and Paige Hamilton
Chapter 14. The Symbiotic Relationship between Mentor-Teacher Training and Teacher Preparation Programs in Assessment and Accreditation; Leigh M. Tolley, Marlene C Beard, Peter Sheppard, and Tarrah C. Davis
Section Five. Stakeholder Involvement
Chapter 15. Authentic and Sustainable Quality Assurance: A Framework for Meaningful Engagement of Stakeholders; Angela Wetzel, Jillian Perlow McGraw, and Amanda Turner
Chapter 16. Shared Voices: Engaging District Stakeholders in a Quality Assurance System; Catherine O’Callaghan, Katherine Roe, and Laura Mead
Chapter 17. A Partnered Approach to Quality Assurance in Educator Preparation in Scotland; Sarah Anderson and Margery McMahon