Assessing Teacher Dispositions: Five Standards-Based Steps to Valid Measurement Using the DAATS Model - Hardcover

Wilkerson, Judy R.; Lang, William S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412953677 ISBN 13: 9781412953672

Publisher: Corwin, 2007

Synopsis

Assess teacher affect and dispositions with a comprehensive framework linked to standards. The authors provide a step-by-step implementation sequence and examples from preservice and inservice settings.

About this title

About the Author:

Judy R. Wilkerson is an Associate Professor of Research and Assessment at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in measurement and evaluation. As in this book and all of her research, she focuses her efforts with students on providing a highly pragmatic approach, based in theory, with the goal of instilling a commitment in them to assess K-12 learning. Her Ph.D. is in Measurement and Research from the University of South Florida, where she served for 15 years as Director of Program Review, leading College and University efforts in accreditation. Her career has been dedicated to standards-based assessment of programs and teachers, beginning with the creation of an evaluation model for accreditation in 1987, which she implemented in several states. Beginning in 1990 for 15 years, she served as the primary consultant for higher education to the Florida Department of Education, where she drafted the standards for the initial approval of teacher education programs, designed the program approval process, and provided technical assistance to colleges of education in evaluation of teachers and programs statewide. She has consulted nationally on NCATE accreditation and worked with state associations of teacher educators on accreditation related issues. She has also consulted with school districts in Florida on assessment systems for teachers. She was lead designer of the assessment system for the Florida Alternative Certification Program, now used in over 40 of the 68 school districts in the State.

Review:

"The text has been well researched, is standards-based, and includes activities, worksheets, definitions, and rubrics. It addresses a topic that has been a mystery to assessment gurus." Author: Marilyn K. Troupe, Director, Division of Educator Preparation Published On: 2006-10-24

“We have all been through statistics classes and measurement classes, but this text actually helps us apply measurement ideas to the concept of dispositions. It should be extremely helpful to education faculty as well as to their liberal arts and science counterparts who often do not understand the concept of dispositions or why they are important and need to be measured or how one even begins to develop an assessment system that includes such measurements.” Author: Martha Gage, Director of Teacher Education and Licensure Published On: 2006-10-24

"School leaders will find an important, key tool to assessing teacher dispositions. It′s been field-tested, so it isn′t just theory. An essential guide." Author: California Bookwatch, August 2007 Published On: 2007-10-12

"This book is chock full of worksheets, assessment design techniques, staff discussion and training activities, and a variety of examples as to how the above can be used for pre-and in-service settings, with or without a statistical focus. This is not a book written for the average consumer, but rather for teacher educators, assessment designers, and K-12 school administrators and staff developers. From an instructor’s perspective, sections of the text would be excellent as an introduction to quantitative research methods for the social sciences." Author: Teachers College Record, August 2008 Published On: 2008-11-21

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1412953677
• ISBN 13: 9781412953672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296