This document presents the results of testing upon two groups of graduate-level, preservice, elementary school, student teachers to compare the cost and effectiveness of a performance based teacher education program with a subject-centered teacher education program at the San Diego State University. Six null hypotheses were tested to determine…

This study of student teachers in high school mathematics and science classrooms compares their teaching behaviors and their scores from three pencil-and-paper tests. Data analysis indicates a relative independence between the ratings of teacher classroom behavior and scores on the pencil-and-paper tests. There was little consistent relationship…