GATEways to Teacher Education A journal of the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators
About the Authors Comfort Y. Afolabi, PhD Dr. Afolabi is a Senior Research Associate at the University System of Georgia and serves as adjunct faculty teaching methods of research in education. She earned her PhD in Educational Policy Studies from Georgia State University. Her other areas of interest are in the field of educator preparation, recruitment and retention, and growing the teacher pipeline. Winifred C. Nweke, PhD Dr. Nweke is an Associate Professor and the Assessment Director in the Teacher Education Department at Clayton State University. She has a PhD in Measurement and Experimentation from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Nweke previously served as the Coordinator for Research & Evaluation at the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. Her research interests include educator workforce supply and demand, large-scale assessment, and dispositions assessment. Tasha P. Perkins, PhD Dr. Tasha Perkins is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Assessment and Accreditation for the School of Education at Shorter University in Rome, Georgia. She earned her PhD in Instructional Leadership from the University of Alabama. She teaches undergraduate foundations of education courses as well as Middle Grades and Secondary Mathematics methods courses. Her research interests include preparing and assessing effective teacher candidates, refugee education, issues impeding equal educational opportunities, and the inequitable allocation of teachers as a key resource within schools.
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