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Sariscsany, Mary Jo – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2010
Teacher work samples (TWS) are an integrated, comprehensive assessment tool that can be used as evidence of a beginning teacher's readiness to teach. Unlike linear assessments used to determine teaching effectiveness, TWS are relevant and reflective of "real" teaching. They are designed to exhibit a clear relationship among teacher candidate…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Work Sample Tests
Wise, A. E., Ed.; Ehrenberg, P., Ed.; Leibbrand, J., Ed. – National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NJ3), 2010
"It's All About Student Learning Assessing Teacher Candidates' Ability to Impact P-12 Students", provides practical assistance for institutions designing or revising assessment systems or individual assessments for use by units or programs. The publication includes performance assessments currently used by teacher preparation institutions and…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment
Parker, Melissa; Sinclair, Christina – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2010
Teacher Work Samples (TWS) can be viewed in terms of a product and a process. As a product, the TWS measures a teacher candidate's (TC's) ability to promote student achievement, documents that TCs have met minimum national standards, and validates teacher education programs. Teacher candidates engage in observable, job-related behaviors that serve…
Descriptors: Work Sample Tests, Academic Achievement, Units of Study, Program Descriptions
Graham, Charles R.; Tripp, Tonya; Wentworth, Nancy – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
This study explores the efforts at Brigham Young University to improve preservice candidates' technology integration using the Teacher Work Sample (TWS) as an assessment tool. Baseline data that was analyzed from 95 TWSs indicated that students were predominantly using technology for productivity and information presentation purposes even though…
Descriptors: Field Instruction, Work Sample Tests, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
Bangert, Art; Kelting-Gibson, Lynn – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
Recent accountability efforts at state and national levels highlight the importance of preparing future teacher in the skills required to produce sound classroom assessments that are capable of improving student learning through informed instruction. Stiggins (1995) suggests that the quality of classroom assessments will not improve unless teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Work Sample Tests, Problem Based Learning
Hayden, Harvey; And Others – 1982
The guidelines are intended to clarify assessment procedures used with handicapped students in Maine. Based on materials compiled by practitioners in that state, the manual focuses on prevocational and vocational assessments for students in grades 7-12. A three level prevocational (life skills) assessment is proposed, beginning with global…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Prevocational Education, Secondary Education
Neubert, Debra – Pointer, 1982
Collaboration between special educators and vocational evaluators can begin with vocational assessment which consists of three major aspects: work sampling, psychometric testing, and critical observation of behaviors. Assessment results can result in improved academic programing, career exploration activities, or modified IEPs. (CL)
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Coordination, Disabilities
Mori, Allen A. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1982
Comprehensive career assessment of handicapped students takes into account medical, psychoeducational, interest and aptitude information, work and job samples, and situational assessment. School-based career assessment programs are described in Texas, New York, Maryland, and Missouri. The author suggests that such programs will become vital parts…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Program Descriptions

Sitlington, Patricia L.; Wimmer, Diane – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1978
The paper reviews methods of vocational assessment for handicapped secondary students and considers factors involved in job analysis. (CL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Children, Informal Assessment, Job Analysis
Botterbusch, Karl F. – 1983
This guide is intended to assist vocational rehabilitation counselors in planning and conducting short-term vocational evaluations of clients. The first section discusses the elements that must be included in a comprehensive vocational evaluation. Next, strategies for conducting a vocational evaluation are explained. The next section, a case study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Millman, Jason, Ed. – 1997
The 24 chapters of this collection discuss contemporary approaches to using student learning gains to evaluating teachers or schools. The four methods considered are: (1) the Oregon Teacher Work Sample Methodology (chapters 2 through 6); (2) the Dallas Value-Added Accountability System (Texas) (chapters 7 through 11); (3) the Tennessee Value-Added…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education

Vu, Nu Viet; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1992
The use of a performance-based assessment of senior medical students' clinical skills utilizing standardized patients was evaluated, with 6,804 student-patient encounters involving 405 students over 6 years. Results provide evidence for test security, content validity, construct validity, reliability, and test ability to discriminate a wide range…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Medical Education
Nolte, Deborah – 1992
A study examined the underlying factor structure of the aptitude tests and work samples being completed by students with educational disadvantages (limited reading and mathematics skills) who were assessed with the current assessment model in the Akron (Ohio) Public Schools. The amount of variance accounted for by the factors was also…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Females
Girod, Gerald R., Ed. – 2002
This handbook shares methodologies for guiding teacher preparation and licensing. It provides a rationale for the inclusion of teacher work sample methodology in preparation and licensing programs, describes how student learning is the central concept within teacher work samples, explains how to teach students and teachers about work samples, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Flad, Harry R.; Canty, Jane M. – 1980
The basis for the assessment process in this project is that structured situations within curriculum areas will yield vocational information (skill and behavioral) that has a direct and indirect relationship to occupational areas in the world of work. Thus, with the assistance of school assessment teams, seven situations were identified and…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cluster Analysis, Data Collection
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