ERIC Number: ED613623
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jul
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
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Examination of the Validity and Reliability of the Kansas Clinical Assessment Tool. Study Snapshot. REL 2021-095
Regional Educational Laboratory Central
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a larger study examining the validity and reliability of the Kansas Clinical Assessment Tool (K-CAT), a newly developed tool for assessing the performance of teacher candidates. The study team used interviews with cooperating teachers, content experts' ratings of the alignment of the K-CAT to professional teaching standards, K-CAT scores, and scores from the Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching and the Kansas Performance Teaching Portfolio to assess the face validity, content validity, convergent validity, and criterion-related validity of the K-CAT, as well as internal consistency as a measure of the instrument's reliability. The study found that cooperating teachers reported that the K-CAT accurately represented existing teaching performance standards (face validity). Two skilled raters found that the content of the K-CAT was mostly aligned to existing teaching performance standards (content validity). In addition, K-CAT scores for the same teacher candidate, provided by cooperating teachers and supervising faculty, were positively related (convergent validity). [For the full report, see ED613622. For the Study Brief, see ED613624. For the appendixes, see ED613625.]
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Evaluation Methods, Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Cooperating Teachers, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Supervisors, State Standards, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Regional Educational Laboratory Central. Available from: Institute of Education Sciences. 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20202. Tel: 202-245-6940; Web site: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/central/index.asp
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) (ED/IES); Regional Educational Laboratory Central (ED); Marzano Research
Identifiers - Location: Kansas
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Praxis Series
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: EDIES17C0005
IES Publication: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?projectID=5682