Using Institutional Data to Predict Teacher Candidate Performance on a Certification Exam

This program study used faculty, administrator and teacher candidate participant interviews to examine expanded field experiences and action research effects on a Professional Development School (PDS) partnership. Specifically, the roles and relationships between public school and higher education members were examined in light of the effectiveness of the program and teacher candidate performance. Implications for higher education practices in PDS development, program design, faculty development and student learning are described. The PDS model has been embraced as a means to collaboratively develop teacher education programs that benefit student learning as well as to effectively meet licensure and academic requirements.

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Constellations of edTPA Data Use

Performance-Based Assessment in 21st Century Teacher Education - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8353-0.ch002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-41

Author(s):

Diana B. Lys ◽

Joy N. Stapleton ◽

Kristen Cuthrell ◽

Elizabeth A. Fogarty ◽

Christina M. Tschida

Keyword(s):

Performance Assessment ◽

Predictive Validity ◽

Data Use ◽

Program Assessment ◽

Teacher Candidate ◽

Program Improvement ◽

Curriculum Revision ◽

Preparation Programs ◽

Assessment Performance ◽

Candidate Performance

As more educator preparation programs (EPPs) adopt edTPA as a teacher candidate performance assessment in their programs, a new set of robust and informational data emerges. As an educative assessment, performance assessment data can be used by EPPs in multiple ways. This chapter identifies five constellations of edTPA data use: teacher candidate readiness, curriculum revision, program assessment and accreditation, predictive validity, and continuous program improvement. Each constellation is rooted in both practice and research and provides strategies for how EPPs may leverage edTPA for multiple purposes within their programs.

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World Language Teacher Candidate Performance on edTPA: An Exploratory Study

Foreign Language Annals ◽

10.1111/flan.12117 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 576-591 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Susan A. Hildebrandt ◽

Pete Swanson

Keyword(s):

Exploratory Study ◽

Teacher Candidate ◽

World Language ◽

Language Teacher ◽

Candidate Performance

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Debriefing Digital Simulations: Exploring Designs that Support Teacher Educators in Using Teacher Candidate Performance Data

10.31235/osf.io/pwqb8 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Meredith Moore ◽

Kevin Ng ◽

YJ Kim ◽

Kevin Robinson ◽

Meredith Thompson ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Teacher Candidates ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Digital Simulation ◽

Teacher Candidate ◽

Preparation Programs ◽

Professional Activities ◽

Support Teacher ◽

Digital Simulations ◽

Candidate Performance

Teacher preparation programs are beginning to embrace new ways for teacher candidates to practice enacting complex professional activities, such as digital simulations. It can be challenging for teacher educators to support teacher candidates in learning through these experiences when the records of practice are stored in audio or video files. This article discusses a portal being developed through design-based research to allow teacher educators to access and efficiently process records of teacher candidates’ performance from a digital simulation. A pilot study was conducted to see how two teacher educators used a prototyped portal to plan and facilitate a post-simulation debriefing with five teacher candidates, and to identify additional opportunities to foster teacher candidate learning. Findings suggest that accessing short transcripts of teacher candidate performance supported teacher educators in planning a debriefing that was grounded in clear learning objectives and responsive to teacher candidates’ needs, while using the data from the portal to make practice public during the debriefing created opportunities for targeted feedback and supported meaning-making.

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Investigating English Teacher Candidate’s Use of Instructional Media During the Teaching Practicum: A Case Study

Pancaran Pendidikan ◽

10.25037/pancaran.v9i2.287 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Rachel Ratih Ayu T ◽

Zakiyah Tasnim ◽

Annur Rofiq

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Qualitative Case Study ◽

Teacher Candidate ◽

Visual Media ◽

English Teacher ◽

Instructional Media ◽

Teaching Practicum ◽

Case Study Design ◽

The Way

This study analyzes the English teacher candidate’s use of instructional media in the teaching practicum. The English teacher candidate who became the participant in this study was doing their teaching practicum in MTsN 5 Jember. This study applied the qualitative case study design. Interview and observation were done one time to select the participant. The four-times classroom observations and questionnaires were used in order to collect the data. This study employed the model of Creswell in analyzing the data. The findings of this study showed that the English teacher candidate applied one type of instructional media namely Visual Media. Those were Picture and Whiteboard. The way the teacher candidate implemented the instructional media was almost the same in each meeting of the teaching and learning process. However, the students’ participation and response were not always the same in every meeting. It depended on the way the teacher candidate managed the class activity.

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