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Educator's Social Representations For Cooperating Teacher Effectiveness: Implications For Policy And Practice, Tami Greggerson

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The purpose of this study was to identify, examine, and compare core social representation systems for "cooperating teacher" and "teacher effectiveness" through perceptions of members of a regional committee spearheaded by the university, campus administrators, teachers from campuses who hosted student teachers (cooperating teachers), and student teachers through a three-part questionnaire. As well, this study aimed to compare and elaborate the meaning of each groups' core descriptive concepts for "cooperating teacher" and "teacher effectiveness" with those identified by Roberts' (2006) Cooperating Teacher Effectiveness model. Social representations were derived for each participating group of subjects utilizing the structural analysis approach suggested …