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2. Did teachers use skills from the training material in their classrooms?
3. Did the use of these skills by teachers have any
effect on student attitudes or learning?
Need for the Study
The Committee on National Program Priorities in Teacher Education claimed that no factor is more crucial to the success of competency-based teacher education than the method of assessing the mastery of concepts and skills (53:30).
For performance-based teacher education to achieve the goals for which it has been designed, much more attention must be concentrated on the evaluation process (27)(46)(54). The Committee on Competency-Based Teacher Education also emphasized the fact by choosing evaluation as one of the areas for study. They reported, "Immediate progress is needed in the identification and specific description of the dimensions of teaching behavior. Progress is needed in gathering data on teaching performance,
both of teacher trainees and of experienced teachers. Pilot assessment systems must be established as quickly as possible" (33:74).
The Florida Program, especially the project for developing assessment and training techniques for middle school teachers, has already identified competencies validated