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DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER EVALUATION INSTRUMENT

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Date Issued:
1979
Summary:
The purpose of this study was the development of a teacher education center evaluation instrument. Items for the instrument were drawn from the literature related to effective inservice education. This item pool was refined and validated using two sequential juries of experts consisting of Florida teacher education center directors, university contact persons, Florida Department of Education personnel and members of the State Council for Teacher Education Centers. The evaluation instrument was designed using a four point Likert type rating scale. The instrument was distributed to 500 school personnel in three Florida county school districts by the On-Site Review of Master Inservice Plan Visiting Teams. The three counties were selected to provide a cross section of teacher education center counties in Florida. There were 335 respondents, or a 67 percent return. The following conclusions were based upon the analysis of data: 1. The teacher education center evaluation instrument proved to be reliable, the alpha coefficients for the field testing being acceptable 2. The teacher education center evaluation instrument proved to have construct validity, the components being easily interpreted using the principal components evaluation 3. The teacher education center evaluation instrument proved to have content validity, having a positive judgmental rating by the respondents 4. The four major components of teacher education center evaluation--decision-making, relationship to the program of the school, commitment to teacher education, resources--proved to be easily interpreted in each county of the field testing. In summary, this study provided statistical data which indicated that the teacher education center evaluation instrument developed was reliable, as noted within the limitations of the study, and that it had content and construct validity. Possibilities for future research were outlined.
Title: THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A TEACHER EDUCATION CENTER EVALUATION INSTRUMENT.
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Name(s): HUTCHINSON, CYNTHIA JANKO.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Rothberg, Robert A., Thesis advisor
Wiegman, Robert R., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 157 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The purpose of this study was the development of a teacher education center evaluation instrument. Items for the instrument were drawn from the literature related to effective inservice education. This item pool was refined and validated using two sequential juries of experts consisting of Florida teacher education center directors, university contact persons, Florida Department of Education personnel and members of the State Council for Teacher Education Centers. The evaluation instrument was designed using a four point Likert type rating scale. The instrument was distributed to 500 school personnel in three Florida county school districts by the On-Site Review of Master Inservice Plan Visiting Teams. The three counties were selected to provide a cross section of teacher education center counties in Florida. There were 335 respondents, or a 67 percent return. The following conclusions were based upon the analysis of data: 1. The teacher education center evaluation instrument proved to be reliable, the alpha coefficients for the field testing being acceptable 2. The teacher education center evaluation instrument proved to have construct validity, the components being easily interpreted using the principal components evaluation 3. The teacher education center evaluation instrument proved to have content validity, having a positive judgmental rating by the respondents 4. The four major components of teacher education center evaluation--decision-making, relationship to the program of the school, commitment to teacher education, resources--proved to be easily interpreted in each county of the field testing. In summary, this study provided statistical data which indicated that the teacher education center evaluation instrument developed was reliable, as noted within the limitations of the study, and that it had content and construct validity. Possibilities for future research were outlined.
Identifier: 11732 (digitool), FADT11732 (IID), fau:8664 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.
College of Education
Subject(s): Teacher centers
Teachers--In-service training
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