ERIC Number: EJ735096
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 19
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 34
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-4871
Assessing Teacher Education: The Usefulness of Multiple Measures for Assessing Program Outcomes
Darling-Hammond, Linda
Journal of Teacher Education, v57 n2 p120-138 2006
Productive strategies for evaluating outcomes are becoming increasingly important for the improvement, and even the survival, of teacher education. This article describes a set of research and assessment strategies used to evaluate program outcomes in the Stanford Teacher Education Program during a period of program redesign over the past 5 years. These include perceptual data on what candidates feel they have learned in the program (through surveys and interviews) as well as independent measures of what they have learned (data from pretests and posttests, performance assessments, work samples, employers' surveys, and observations of practice). The article discusses the possibilities and limits of different tools for evaluating teachers and teacher education and describes future plans for assessing beginning teachers' performance in teacher education, their practices in the initial years of teaching, and their pupils' learning. (Contains 2 notes and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Evaluation Methods, Outcomes of Education, Research Methodology, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Teacher Attitudes, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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