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ERIC Number: ED613623
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jul
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
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.]
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
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
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