The Impact of Assessment Collaboratives on Secondary Mathematics Teaching Interns' Development
Academic Year:
2016 - 2017 (June 1, 2016 through May 31, 2017)
Funding Requested:
$10,000.00
Project Dates:
-
Applicant(s):
Graduate Student/Postdoc:
Amber Willis, atwillis
Overview of the Project:
The project is designed to improve the system for collecting and analyzing secondary mathematics teaching interns performance in field placements by providing timely, coherent, and authentic feedback. Assessment collaboratives will be comprised of faculty, field instructors, and local-area cooperating teachers, and will leverage automatic following devices that record and live stream video data to remote computers. The use of an automatic following device system allows multiple members of the assessment collaborative to provide immediate feedback regarding the enactment of specific teaching practices. Assessment collaboratives will participate in training sessions to learn the technology and clarify the performance criteria of teaching interns. At the end of the semester, the project will be analyzed as a set of case studies that describe the functioning of different assessment collaboratives and teaching interns growth and development around programmatic teaching competencies.