For accreditation and programmatic decision making, education school administrators use inter-rater reliability analyses to judge credibility of student-teacher assessments. Although weak levels of agreement between university-appointed supervisors and cooperating teachers are usually interpreted to indicate that the process is not being…

Assessment is a complex function requiring an understanding of student learning, assessment principles, practices, and purposes of data to implement effective classroom assessment. The purpose of this study was to add to the growing base of knowledge about teachers' engagement with assessment data and their motivation for classroom assessment.…

The purpose of this study was to examine the sources of efficacy of experienced teachers who are making the transition to reform-based mathematics teaching, by examining the criteria that they use to evaluate their teaching effectiveness. The quantity and quality of 10 elementary teachers' verbal reflections on the success of their lessons were…

Several personality traits were observed in a study to discover specific characteristics effective teachers share. These traits included a willingness to share, sense of right-timing, capacity for loving, and a sense of well-being. (DF)

Interviewed six beginning elementary teachers regarding the impact of New York City's high stakes testing culture on their classroom practice. Respondents explained that testing had become a focal point of daily classroom practice. They found the culture of testing troublesome, noting its negative impact on education. They expressed feelings…

Teacher self-assessment programs have become increasingly popular with the advent of ideas concerning behavior modification. Several teacher self-assessment studies are reviewed, and guidelines are provided for the development of self-assessment techniques. (JN)

This article presents the results of an action research study that sought to determine the most effective e-portfolio system for our teacher education programs. Three e-portfolio systems (LiveText, TaskStream, and a university-developed system called Epsilen) were implemented throughout a semester course in which students and faculty evaluated…

To explore why teachers rejected videotaping as an observation and coaching method, researchers interviewed 29 teachers enrolled in teacher supervision classes to determine the human and the technical issues involved. About one-quarter of the problems were technical malfunctions and limitations, and the rest resulted from human responses to…