Vsl. Williams et Me. Wakeford, THE PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY OF THE NATIONAL TEACHER EXAMINATIONS USED FORADMISSION TO TEACHER-EDUCATION PROGRAMS, Educational and psychological measurement, 53(2), 1993, pp. 533-539
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Educational","Psychologym Experimental","Mathematical, Methods, Social Sciences
This research investigates previous findings which report that perform
ance on the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) tests of Communication
Skills (CS) and General Knowledge (GK) used for teacher education adm
issions was not related to performance in teacher education course wor
k. Administrative data were collected for 1,143 graduates of teacher e
ducation programs, including various test scores and grade point avera
ges. The CS and GK scores were not found to be strongly enough related
to performance in teacher education programs, as measured by grade po
int average, to merit their use as requirements for admission. The tes
ts are useful for predicting performance on the NTE test of Profession
al Knowledge, the state certification examination. Cross-validation of
prior regression models showed these relationships to be stable. The
authors point out policy implications of the study.