By Teaching We Learn: Teacher Education Assessment

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By Teaching We LearnTeacher Education Assessment
Connecting candidate performance to PK-12 student
learning
Standards-based assessment system
Idaho State University College of Education
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The goals of our work . . .
Assess candidate performance relative to
national, state, and institutional
standards. Connect the performance of candidates
to PK-12 student learning.
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Multiple Assessments

• Admission to Pre-Professional Courses
• Grade Point Average
• English Composition
• Basic Technology Skills
• Admission to Teacher Education Program
• Praxis I
• Admission Portfolio
• Admission Interview
• Grade point average
• Cooperating Teacher Evaluation
• Instructor Evaluation

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Multiple Assessments

• Admission to Student Teaching
• Grade Point Averages (professional education,
  teaching major, teaching minor)
• Professional Portfolio
• Teacher Work Sample
• Teaching Performance Evaluations
• Idaho Technology Portfolio Assessment
• Idaho Comprehensive Literacy Test
• Praxis II (beginning fall 2002)

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Multiple Assessments

• Program Completion
• Grade Point Averages (professional education,
  teaching major, teaching minor)
• Professional Portfolio
• Teacher Work Sample
• Teaching Performance Evaluations
• Exit Interview
• Post Program
• Follow-Up Surveys
• Employer Surveys

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Teacher Education Database

• Serves as tracking database and assessment
  database
• Linked to institutional database
• Organized by individual student record
• Each record holds all candidate performance data
• Automatically downloads programs of study each
  semester
• Uses Cognos software to perform queries and
  generate summary reports