Abstract
Assessing teacher candidates is complex and difficult. A multi-dimensional approach allows faculty the opportunity to use multiply assessments to determine the candidate's proficiencies of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Utilizing a prolonged and intense approach to field experience, North Greenville University's College of Education faculty are able to produce multiply assessments that clearly define a teacher candidate's ability to affect k-12 learning. Among the strongest assessments used are the Assessment of Dispositions, the Field Experience Evaluation, The Teacher Work Sample, the Licensure Exams, and the ADEPT (Assisting, developing, and evaluating professional teaching criteria used in South Carolina to evaluate teachers) Portfolio Notebook and Presentation. In tandem, these measures give a clear and accurate picture for evaluating teacher candidates as evidenced by Principal's surveys and exit survey data.
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Branyon, Jill
(2009)
"Assessing Teacher Candidates: A Multi-Dimensional Approach,"
Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/tejsc/vol2/iss1/9