Abstract
In 2009 the Department of Teacher Education at Lander University created a small collaborative assessment team to construct an online evaluation tool for their clinical candidates. The primary intent of the team was twofold. First, the team needed to create a single tool that reflected the Department of Teacher Education’s conceptual framework and that could capture data from teacher candidates, host cooperating teachers, and university supervisors, (stakeholders) in both the field and clinical experiences. Second, the team needed to create a database that would store candidates’ clinical data in a way that was easy to manipulate and aggregate in order to provide data for faculty members working toward continuous program improvement based on national and state standards. Team members reviewed all of the major documents used by the Department to evaluate candidates’ clinical experiences and decided to collapse the evaluations into one concise form to be posted online. The new form was also designed in response to the idea that this evaluation tool should both serve as an important formative professional learning experience for students and contribute to the overall ongoing process of program improvement.
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Michael H.; Barton, Gina; and Neufeld, Judith
(2010)
"A Pilot Study: Capturing Online Dispositions and Summative Evaluation of Educational Field Experiences,"
Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina: Vol. 3:
No.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/tejsc/vol3/iss1/13