The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of inservice training on teacher performance assessment scores subsequent to an initial nonmastery rating on a selected competence. Specifically, this study focused on teachers who did not master competency number seven, "Maintains a Positive Learning Environment", of the Georgia Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments. / The conceptual population of this study was all teachers in Georgia who had not mastered competency seven of the Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments after an initial assessment. Data was collected from two groups of teachers who were randomly selected from the State of Georgia. One group of 40 teachers from 8 school districts was given inservice training; the other group of 208 teachers from 33 school districts was not given the inservice training. The data used for analysis were drawn from the results of the Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI) which served as the pre and posttest for each group. / An experimental design was used in this research study. Data collected from the pre and postmeasures were subjected to hypothesis tests of the difference between two population proportions and analysis of covariance. All statistical procedures and tests used .10 as the significance level. / A significantly larger proportion of teachers who attended the inservice workshop demonstrated mastery of competency seven than those who were not given the inservice training. In addition, none of the 40 teachers who attended the workshop showed a decrease in score while 10.1 percent of teachers not attending showed a decrease in score. Therefore, it may be concluded that the inservice training did differentially affect the performance of teachers. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-10, Section: A, page: 3735. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1986.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75944 |
| Contributors | IVEY, ROGER LEWIS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 166 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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