The five instruments and the procedures in this manual were designed to assess teaching competencies selected for the Georgia department of education. The system, designed to assess teaching competence in an on-the-job setting included the following steps: (1) identifying desirable teaching competencies; (2) identifying behaviors that correspond…

A study was conducted to assess Missouri vocational home economics teachers' perceived use of instructional materials. A survey form, consisting of three sections (personal data, curriculum experience, and curriculum competencies), was sent to the total population of consumer homemaking and occupational home economics teachers in secondary schools…

College-level students' achievements may be negatively impacted because college-level instructors, though well educated and informed in their particular subject area, may not be effective classroom teachers. A study was conducted to examine the preparation of postsecondary educators to determine if methodology training is considered to be of any…

This monograph presents an assessment instrument that utilizes teacher and student behavioral indicators to assess the quality of inquiry instruction. The instrument provides teachers with feedback which not only assesses the presence of critical teaching skills, but also serves as a valuable training aid for helping them perceive how their own…

A follow-up to a September 1985 survey of Illinois teachers of 3- to 6-year-old handicapped children, these rating scales are designed to determine more specifically the perceived knowledge and skill needs of a random sample of teachers of young handicapped children. Information obtained from the rating scales are to be used by the Illinois State…

This report describes the second phase in the development of the University of Washington Teacher Assessment System designed to produce a new system for the evaluation of student teachers. The development of the new system took place in several phases. Phase one, a literature search as a data source for the development of a teacher assessment…

Teacher performance areas, criteria for evaluating them, and response modes (checklists for rating teacher performance) are supplied in this document, a prototype developed for the School Improvement Model (SIM) project. Teacher performance areas selected for evaluation include productive teaching techniques; organized, structured class…

A 3 year project was initiated to develop, implement, and evaluate a program for training personnel to work with visually handicapped/multiply handicapped children. The ecological systems model proposed by N. Hobbs was examined as the primary consideration in the development of the program. Teachers under the project were prepared for roles which…

This report describes the Organizing for Diversity Project, which generated professional development modules to prepare teachers to work more effectively with diverse students. Prototype modules were developed in collaboration with teacher volunteers, then field tested. The final 11 modules, which included 33 hours of training, were designed for…

The Student Teachers' Feelings-of-Preparedness to Teach Scale and individual interviews examined perceptions of first-year Canadian teachers about their preparedness to teach. Includes conclusions about the strengths and weaknesses of their two-year teacher education program at the University of British Columbia, suggestions for program…

This document provides a research study of a 10-year elementary school teacher science staff development project, "The Science in Rural California Teacher Enhancement Project." The study investigated the long term effects on teacher participants 3 to 5 years after project contact: beliefs about science, confidence levels about teaching…

This study determined the effects of three levels of clinical experiences on teacher education students' perceptions of the importance and performance of various teacher attributes. Measures of importance and performance were obtained from a sample of 216 (37 male, 179 female) teacher education students from Jacksonville State University (Alabama)…

The Science Teacher Inventory of Need (STIN) is an 83-item instrument which assesses science teachers' perceptions of their professional needs. Items on the STIN are organized under seven categories: (1) specifying objectives for science instruction; (2) diagnosing and evaluating learners for science instruction; (3) planning science instruction;…

The degrees of variance among three groups of evaluators relative to their assessments of the teaching competencies of preservice teacher education students were studied. Subjects included groups of 23 and 32 undergraduates who were certified to teach by the teacher preparation program at Washburn University in Topeka (Kansas) in 1987 and in 1988,…

To determine the analysis of variance among different assessments of teaching competencies shown by preservice education students as student teachers, 32 undergraduates certified in 1985 and 42 from 1986 were studied. Data were obtained on their self-evaluations of 25 teaching competencies. Evaluations by their cooperating teachers (35 in fall…