Applications of Teaching Performance Tests in Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Performance-Based Teacher Education 1, no. 5 (December 1972): 1, 5.

Multistate Consortium on Performance-Based Teacher Education , Bureau of Teacher Education, New York State Education Department, Albany, N.Y.

Performance-Based Teacher Education, pp. 1, 5.

McNeil, J.D. , and W.J. Popham , Chapter 7. "The Assessment of Teacher Competence." In The Handbook of Research on Teaching. Edited by R.M.W. Travers. New York: MacMillan , 1973.

If novel subject matter is employed, no pretest is typically employed. With less esoteric topics, a pretest may be utilized to identify sufficiently naive learners.

David Berliner of the Far West Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development has recently devised some innovative applications of teaching performance tests for purposes of isolating teachers' instructional techniques.

Personal communication to the writer.

In the teaching improvement kits (consisting of 3-6 mini-lessons) distributed by Instructional Appraisal Services, Box 24821, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024.

In the absence of clearly posted signs indicating pars (per hole) of three, four, or five, the writer's early experiences on a golf course would have suggested that an acceptable number of strokes per hole was something closer to 10, 15, or 20.