Building a case on the commonalties found in four teacher assessment instruments, the authors assert the importance of selecting teachers based on professional attitudes and personal attributes. This article synopsizes four tools used to assess teachers and teacher candidates regarding knowledge, skills, and values. The tools reviewed in this article are: Teacher Perceiver Instrument, STAR Teacher Interview, Praxis 111 Teacher Performance Assessment, and National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The article includes a clarifying matrix which supports the authors' proclamation and which illustrates the dimensions of teacher knowledge, dispositions, and skills particular to these tools. In addition to building a case for the significance of the personal and interpersonal attributes necessary for successful teacher; this article offers a synthesis of these four tools and draws implications for teacher preparation and professional development.
The authors conducted a qualitative investigation of Hispanic students’ perceptions of the experience of vertical transfer from community college to a four-year institution. The study participants were students who had completed vertical transfer from two community colleges into a four-year degree program co-located in a region of the southwestern United States. Participants were predominantly Hispanic, male, and first generation. The findings of focus group sessions and survey data are analyzed and capture participants’ perceptions of issues that are essential to transfer success at the pre-, mid-, and post-transfer phases of the transition process and post-graduation goals and expectations.
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