Article title : Evaluating teacher education programs using a national survey
Writer : Anne Marie Thomas, William E. Loadman
Journal/Newspaper : The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Mar. - Apr., 2001), pp. 195-206
Date published : 2001 Number of words: 325
List no. : 172
This article tells about National Survey of Teacher Education Program Graduates; developed by Free man, Loadman, and Kennedy (1991), to evaluate the baccalaureate and masters of education (M.Ed.) teacher education programs at a major Carnegie I research university. The method used in this article is survey method. It used national survey that is 4 measures -acting as proxies for teacher education graduate careers, quality of program, teaching skills, and teaching knowledge satisfaction- and compared them with nation al norms from other teacher education programs across the country. The survey data from the class of 1996, consisting of 263 baccalaureate graduates and 171 M.Ed, graduates, suggested that they were generally very positive about their programs and careers. The result shows that the baccalaureate and M.Ed, graduate responses on all 4 measures were more alike than different. Both groups of 1996 graduates rated the measures more positively than the national norms.
The writer put himself as a surveyor who conducts this study by gathering the respondent sample using two separate mailings, a reminder mailing, and follow-up telephone calls.
I agree with the result of the study that by using national survey, teachers were generally very positive about their programs and careers. Since there are so many unqualified teachers because they are lack of evaluation, it’s very important to evaluate teacher education programs.
In May, 2013 Indonesia a national survey towards teachers has ever been conducted to know teachers quality regarding the launching of a new curriculum. This survey shows still there is a gap between a new curriculum and the practice. So it must be hard for teacher to implement it.
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