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The Effects Of Continuous Improvement Practices Using State Value-Added Data For Reading Educator Program Enhancement, Kristin A. Gansle, Gerlinde Grandstaff-Beckers, Angelle Stringer, Nancy Roberts, Jeanne M. Burns, George Noell
The Effects Of Continuous Improvement Practices Using State Value-Added Data For Reading Educator Program Enhancement, Kristin A. Gansle, Gerlinde Grandstaff-Beckers, Angelle Stringer, Nancy Roberts, Jeanne M. Burns, George Noell
Journal of Contemporary Research in Education
Louisiana’s value-added evaluation of teacher preparation programs has provided a salient impetus for program improvement; however, due to the nature of the assessment, teacher preparation programs need to use additional sources of data to identify actionable responses to the value-added results. This paper describes one teacher preparation program’s approach to continuous program improvement in reading education and describes some of the limitations and benefits of value-added assessment results for that purpose.
Protean And Boundaryless Career Attitudes: Do Teacher Candidates Have These?, Tony Michael, Kevin B. Stoltz, Lori A. Wolff, Laith G. Mazahreh, Ann E. Monroe
Protean And Boundaryless Career Attitudes: Do Teacher Candidates Have These?, Tony Michael, Kevin B. Stoltz, Lori A. Wolff, Laith G. Mazahreh, Ann E. Monroe
Journal of Contemporary Research in Education
Since the late 20th century, the Protean (Hall, 1996) and Boundaryless (Arthur, 1994) career concepts have been posited as explanations for employment transformations in corporate structures. While previous research (Briscoe, Hall, & Fratschy DeMuth, 2006) provides evidence of these constucts with business students, research has lacked in evaluating the Protean and Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scale (PBCAS) with other professions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factor structure of the PBCAS with 350 undergraduate teacher candidates and to test the new model with a second sample (n = 194). The results showed moderate support for the validity of …