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(2022) . Social Discourses on the Teacher Performance Assessment: Media Tales, Twitter Tweets and Leadership Surveys. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 47(1) .  \n[http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2022v47n1.1](http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2022v47n1.1)  \n[This Journal Article is posted at Research Online.](This Journal Article is posted at Research Online.)[ ](This Journal Article is posted at Research Online.)[https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol47/iss1/1](https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol47/iss1/1)  \nSocial Discourses on the Teacher Performance Assessment: Media Tales, Twitter Tweets and Leadership Surveys  \nBeryl Exley  \nDonna Pendergast  \nFrances Hoyte  \nGriffith University  \nAbstract: This paper explores the introduction ofthe new Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) for graduate teachers in Australia.  \nWe investigate how the broader discussion around TPAs has been  \nunderstood by multiple agents during an eight-month period from  \nJanuary 2019 to August 2019. Data includes legacy media, social media tweets and a survey of school leaders. The analysis draws on Bernsteinian (1975) theory about the way particular social relations produce differing sentiments of social unity. While eschewing a strict binary, legacy media was characterised by a mechanical solidarity which promoted the TPA as akin to a test. Contributions to social media and responses to the survey suggested an orientation to organic solidarity and a recognition of the complex inter-dependence of specialised roles within initial teacher education. These diverse social discourses carry the potential to influence the broader commission of what counts as graduate teacher quality.  \nTeacher Education Reforms  \nWithin the Australian context from which we write, initial teacher education is under intense scrutiny, and rightly so (Hoyte et al., 2020) . As Singh et al. (2020) explain, ‘everyone wants teachers of quality for their children, and everyone would accept that teacher education programs should be of the highest quality’(p. 2) . Early career teacher quality matters and the content and delivery of initial teacher education and the means by which aspiring teachers are deemed eligible to be registered for professional practice should be publicly defendable (Wyatt-Smith & Adie, 2018) . The relatively recent Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group’s ‘Action Now: Classroom Ready Teachers’(TEMAG, 2014) report made 38 recommendations. Three recommendations centred on the introduction of hurdle tasks during the initial teacher education experience. The first recommendation was for a more sophisticated approach to entry selection to ensure ‘initial teacher education students possess the required academic skills and personal characteristics to become a successful teacher’(Recommendation 10, TEMAG, 2014, p. 44) . The second recommendation was for a‘national literacy and numeracy test to demonstrate that all pre-service teachers are within the top 30 per cent of the population in personal literacy and numeracy’ (Recommendation 13, TEMAG, 2014, p. 44) . The third recommendation suggested that higher education providers and schools ‘work together to assist pre-service teachers to develop and collect sophisticated evidence of their teaching ability and their impact on student learning for their Portfolio of Evidence’ (Recommendation 28, TEMAG, 2014, p. 33) .  \nThe Australian Institu","cbCainwaEjd98Vl7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainwaEjd98Vl7","pdf",284004,14,"English","# Abstract\n# Teacher Education Reforms\n## Policy background and hurdle tasks\n## AITSL standards and accreditation processes\n## Rollout of the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of the paper on Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines the introduction of the new TPA for graduate teachers in Australia and how broader discussions about TPAs were understood by different agents.\"},{\"question\":\"What data sources are used to study the social discourses around TPAs?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses legacy media, social media tweets, and a survey of school leaders over an eight-month period from January 2019 to August 2019.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper characterize the difference between legacy media and social media discussions?\",\"answer\":\"Legacy media is described as promoting the TPA as akin to a test through mechanical solidarity, while contributions to social media and survey responses indicate an orientation toward organic solidarity.\"}]","Social Discourses on the Teacher Performance Assessment: Media Tales, Twitter Tweets and Leadership Surveys | PDF",35]