In fact, no one I spoke to in Arkansas had a kind word for the test as a meaningful tool for achieving teacher competency.
Lacking clear goals for what pupils of each age should be achieving, teachers in Latin America are "working in the dark", says Andreas Schleicher, one of the OECD study's organisers.
However, there is a growing interest for exploring how MOOCs can enrich traditionally taught courses and act as a complementary resource in achieving teachers' and students' goals.
But to achieve that, teachers need to be given clearer recommendations on the minimum amount of time required to teach about the Holocaust and explicit educational aims of the work.
In order to achieve this, teachers and researchers first need to understand the way in which SE changes, and also to what students attribute change.
To achieve this, teachers delivering EBM curricula need to inculcate amongst learners the skills to gain, assess, apply, integrate and communicate new knowledge in clinical decision-making.
"A skilled mentor in the early stages of training is much more important than achieving a teacher training qualification".
Most start their training at graduate level, where there are several ways of achieving Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), which is the prerequisite for working in any "maintained" (i.e. state-sector) or special school in the UK.
Teachers' community can serve as a helpful resource for sharing teaching resources and help teacher achieve efficient teaching plans.
Establishing a nurturing and positive teacher-student relationship through personal comments has been proven to be achieved if teachers learn and begin to show pleasure in students' effort (Tchudi, 1986; Walvoord, 1986, as cited in Holmes & Smith, 2003).
