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Assessing Teacher Dispositions
Five Standards-Based Steps to Valid Measurement Using the DAATS Model
- Judy R. Wilkerson - Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
- William Steve Lang - University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Foreword by Richard C. Kunkel
Other Titles in:
Leadership & Management | Staff Supervision/Evaluation/Retention | Teacher Induction
Leadership & Management | Staff Supervision/Evaluation/Retention | Teacher Induction
July 2007 | 296 pages | Corwin
This companion volume to the authors' Assessing Teacher Competency provides schools of education, teacher induction programs, and school districts with the safe, valid, and reliable framework for assessing and measuring teacher dispositions that they have long sought. Teacher affect and disposition have always been more difficult to define and measure than teacher knowledge and skills (competency), but together those three measures define the standards of best practice set by NCATE, INTASC, and NBPTS. The authors' 5-step DAATS model for measuring teacher affect and dispositions is research based, field tested, and presented in a step-by-step sequence with worksheets, training activities, and examples from both pre-service and in-service settings. The DAATS model for assessing teacher dispositions may be used on its own, or it may be used in conjunction with the authors' CAATS model for assessing teacher competency (knowledge and skills) as part of a comprehensive assessment system.
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Boxes
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Foreword by Richard C. Kunkel
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. What Are Dispositions and Why Should We Measure Them?
2. Methods for Assessing Dispositions
3. DAATS Step 1: Assessment Design Inputs
4. DAATS Step 2: Planning With a Continuing Eye on Valid Assessment Decisions
5. DAATS Step 3: Instrument Development
6. DAATS Step 4: Decision Making and Data Management
7. DAATS Step 5: Credible Data
8. Using Teacher Scores for Continuous Improvement
9. Legal Integrity
Resource I. DAATS Steps and Worksheets
Resource II. INTASC Disposition Indicators
Glossary
Index
"The text has been well researched, is standards-based, and includes activities, worksheets, definitions, and rubrics. It addresses a topic that has been a mystery to assessment gurus."
Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board
“We have all been through statistics classes and measurement classes, but this text actually helps us apply measurement ideas to the concept of dispositions. It should be extremely helpful to education faculty as well as to their liberal arts and science counterparts who often do not understand the concept of dispositions or why they are important and need to be measured or how one even begins to develop an assessment system that includes such measurements.”
Kansas State Department of Education
"School leaders will find an important, key tool to assessing teacher dispositions. It's been field-tested, so it isn't just theory. An essential guide."
"This book is chock full of worksheets, assessment design techniques, staff discussion and training activities, and a variety of examples as to how the above can be used for pre-and in-service settings, with or without a statistical focus. This is not a book written for the average consumer, but rather for teacher educators, assessment designers, and K-12 school administrators and staff developers. From an instructor’s perspective, sections of the text would be excellent as an introduction to quantitative research methods for the social sciences."
