Investigation into the teacher's stewardship and assessment instruments for classroom evaluation : LDS seminary teacher evaluation
Date
2001
Authors
Nordfelt, D. Spencer
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2001
Abstract
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) prepare a formal description of the
expectations associated with the stewardship of a released-time seminary teacher and (b)
create classroom assessment instruments to be used by seminary teachers for self-analysis
and students for evaluative feedback in four areas of classroom assessment: classroom
learning environment, teacher characteristics, student development, and status of students
on factors extraneous to the classroom. Five hypotheses were tested within the LDS
Church Educational System to provide data upon which to recommend use of the
instruments. The results from testing the hypotheses revealed: (1) there is no difference in
the results of assessment instruments when they are distributed either by a teacher, a
supervisor, or a peer-teacher, (2) teachers and students are not congruent when their
assessments of the classroom experiences are compared, (3) the congruence between the
teacher and student assessments is not influenced by length of the teacher's previous
teaching experience, (4) teachers with one to three years of teaching experience receive
higher assessments than those with more years of teaching experience, and (5) teacher
preferred classes receive higher assessments than randomly selected classes.
Description
x, 128 leaves ; 29 cm. --
Keywords
Teachers -- Rating of , Mormon church -- Education