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Initial Teacher Education: Does Self-Efficacy Influence Candidate Teacher Academic Achievement and Future Career Performance?
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Shawer, Saad F. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This quantitative investigation examined the influence of low and high self-efficacy on candidate teacher academic performance in a foreign language teaching methodology course through testing the speculation that high self-efficacy levels would improve pedagogical-content knowledge (PCK). Positivism guided the research design at the levels of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Rethinking the Treatment of Traditional Assessment Topics in Light of a Movement toward Authentic Assessment in the Classroom.
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Flaitz, Jim; Perdomo, Toni – 1994
A cursory examination of current measurement texts used in teacher education reveals a treatment of such topics as test reliability, item analysis, and test interpretation based largely upon classical test theory. In the meantime, the landscape of the classroom has been significantly impacted by a growing emphasis on more authentic assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends, Item Analysis
Using Performance Assessments To Measure Teachers' Competence in Classroom Assessment.
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O'Sullivan, Rita G.; Johnson, Robert L. – 1993
The development and pilot testing of a set of performance assessments to determine classroom teachers' measurement competencies in areas covered by "Standards for Teacher Competence in Educational Assessment of Students" (1990) are described. How the use of performance assessments in a graduate-level classroom-assessment course can…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Students