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Watkins, Paul; Watkins, Shelley – Critical Questions in Education, 2011
Many university and college teacher education programs have adopted the Teacher Work Sample (TWS) as their capstone assessment demonstrating a teacher candidate's competencies in planning, assessing and reflecting on instructional practice. The TWS summative results submitted by students at a mid-size state university who were in their final…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Summative Evaluation
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Denner, Peter; Norman, Antony; Lin, Shu-Yuan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
Acknowledging the necessity to establish the fairness and consequential validity of teacher candidate performance assessments when they are used to make high-stakes decisions impacting entry into the profession, we investigated whether there were any adverse results from the use of the Renaissance Teacher Work Sample (TWS) assessment at two…
Descriptors: Work Sample Tests, Test Validity, Test Bias, Preservice Teachers
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Kirchner, Jana; Evans, C. Samuel; Norman, Antony D. – Action in Teacher Education, 2010
We administered two instruments designed to assess and predict teacher effectiveness, the TeacherInsight Interview (TI) and the Renaissance Teacher Work Sample (TWS), to student teachers (N = 396) at a large comprehensive institution in the Southeastern United States to investigate whether TWS performance predicts TI scores. We first investigated…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs