Evidence for no-one: Standards, accreditation, and transformed teaching work

The relationship between professional teaching standards and the evidence that they have been met and/or maintained is an issue of ongoing interest internationally. This study employed a dialogic analysis of research conversations and institutional ethnography to trace the social relationships that support teachers' learning in ways that they considered had transformed their practice. Some examples are used to illustrate how the nature of evidence of transformed teaching work offered by teachers differed from the evidence they had produced for the purposes of accreditation against professional standards.