Measuring teacher performance is a controversial topic as the measurement process poses difficult problems for teacher educators. To assess the perfor mance of student teachers, Gibney and Wiersma describe two approaches to observation that involve established observation inventories. Forty-nine com petencies are identified, and the results of student teacher performance are then discussed and interpreted.
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