The purpose of this study was to: (1) develop and validate a taxonomy of Florida teacher competency domains with assessment concerns; (2) classify the competency subskills according to the taxonomy; and (3) examine the implications for assessment within the Florida COTE certification. / The population used in this study to classify the subskills according to the taxonomy was composed of those institutions field-testing implementation procedures for the Florida year-long internship program. / The literature was searched in order to identify competency domains and assessment issues. Five domains were identified; Knowledge, Experience, Behavior, Affective, and Consequence which form the basis of the taxonomy hierarchy. Each domain and its definitions were evaluated by a panel of scholars and practitioners as to the clarity of the domain and the appropriateness for the proposed instrumentation, and all were determined to be valid. The competency subskills were classified and discussed in terms of assessment issues. / All of the COTE (127) subskills were able to be classified into domains by the survey population. Of the validated subskills (117), 27 subskills were classified into one competency domain; 90 subskills revealed two subgroups of classification; subskills in Subgroup A (39) were considered to have competency domain directionality; and Subgroup B (51) contained at least three competency domains. / The survey population was not based on a random sample of professional educators, and therefore may present some degree of sampling bias. The taxonomy has face validity only. Survey instrumentation is not an ordered measure and therefore is not troubled by reliability. / Given the limitations in this study, the following conclusions were made: (1) There is a taxonomy of competencies identified in the literature. (2) The taxonomy has face validity. (3) All of the 117 subskills are classifiable according to the taxonomy. (4) The process of assessing the subskills is complex, when considering subskills covering more than one domain. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-11, Section: A, page: 4797. / Thesis (Educat.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74687 |
| Contributors | LANDERS, ROGER RICE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 231 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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