BACKGROUND Residency training is charged with improving resident teaching skills. Utilizing simulation in teacher training has unique advantages such as providing a controlled learning environment and opportunities for deliberate practice. OBJECTIVE We assessed the impact of a simulation-based resident-as-teacher (RaT) program. DESIGN A RaT program was embedded in an existing 8-case simulat...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the comparative effect of teacher-, peer-, andself-assessment on EFL learners’ vocabulary achievement. Accordingly, 90 female Englishlanguage learners selected out of an initial 140 intermediate EFL learners based on theirperformance on a sample piloted PET took part in the study. All three groups were taught bythe same teacher using the same cour...

Tutors often have difficulty in accurately assessing their tutees‟ understanding. However, it is unclear how tutors‟ professional experience influences their assessment accuracy. Therefore, we conducted a study with N = 46 tutor-tutee dyads and compared the accuracy with which teacher tutors and student tutors assessed a tutee‟s understanding of the human circulatory system at the level of ment...

Teacher training programmes are necessary assets in faculty development. Few data exist on their long-term effects on participants' teaching skills. Our aim was to study participants' didactic competencies up to four years after attending a newly established faculty development workshop at Hamburg Medical School. Of the 322 participants who attended our teacher training between 2006 and 2009, 3...

One of the main functions of a teacher in a digital environment is student assessment. The need for assessment literacy based on measurement and quantitative data is weakening, both in terms of the traditional approach of the assessment on which it is based on, and given that information technologies can address these needs effectively. The assessment literacy required of a teacher today is of ...

Predicting On-the-Job Teacher Success Based on a Group Assessment Procedure Used for Admission to Teacher Education

The present study intended to evaluate EFL students' performance on a traditional method of writing assessment in comparison to an alternative assessment technique by taking into account the effects of teacher and peer feedback. Moreover, the attitudes of the participants regarding assessment procedures and activities were focused in this study. To this end, thirty male and female language lear...

Teacher judgments of student learning are a key element in performance assessment. This study examines aspects of the validity of teacher judgments that are based on the Work Sampling System (WSS), a curriculumembedded, performance assessment for preschool (age 3) to Grade 5. The purpose of the study is to determine if teacher judgments about student learning in kindergarten to third grade are ...

In 1998, the California legislature passed Senate Bill SB 2042 which replaced the previous teacher certification legislation. The new law required that all elementary and secondary teacher certification programs in the State of California align their programs with new teaching standards. These standards included Teacher Performance Expectations (TPEs), thirteen performance dimensions defined as...