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Predicting On-The-Job Teacher Success Based On A Group Assessment Procedure Used For Admission To Teacher Education, Lavaun Gene Faulk
Predicting On-The-Job Teacher Success Based On A Group Assessment Procedure Used For Admission To Teacher Education, Lavaun Gene Faulk
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of a group assessment procedure used as admission criteria into a teacher education program to predict future teaching success. Information was sought from principals within the state of Utah regarding the teaching success of 151 Utah State University graduates teaching in Utah public schools. Interviewed principals used a self-anchoring scale (1 = unsuccessful to 10 = highly successful) to “anchor” their beliefs about successful and unsuccessful teachers. Scores principals gave study participants when considering their success to other teachers on faculty were compared to scores teachers were given earlier as …