Standard
1.G
Student Learning for Teacher Candidates
Target: Teacher candidates accurately assess and analyze student learning, make appropriate adjustments to instruction, monitor student learning, and have a positive effect on learning for all students.
Initial.
Initial-level candidates learn the processes of assessment of student learning during the professional and pedagogical knowledge and skills sequence of learning experiences. All elementary candidates take EDPS 340 Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation (3 hrs), except that early childhood candidates instead take EDPS 341 Assessment of the Young Child (3 hrs). Special education candidates take SPGN 390 Measurement and Diagnosis in Special Education (3 hrs) instead of the EDPS course ordinarily taken by elementary or secondary/K-12 candidates.
With exceptions that apply to candidates in a few programs, secondary/K-12 students also take EDPS 340 Introduction to Assessment and Evaluation (3 hrs). The exceptions include music education (both instrumental and vocal) and physical education. Candidates in physical education take PHED 470 Assessment and Evaluation in Physical Education (2 hrs).
Initial-level candidates have an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in assessment of student learning in the FETE (field experience in teacher education) courses and, even more substantively, in student teaching. See Standard 3 for a more detailed presentation.
EMU is one of the eleven institutions participating in the Renaissance Group "Teacher Quality" consortium. Those of our candidates who have participated in this project have had extensive experience with implementation of the "teacher work sample" methodology, which is assessment intensive. This assessment model has been presented as Example G in NCATE's "Assessing Education Candidate Performance." For additional information concerning EMU's participation in this project, see http://fp.uni.edu/itq/News/eastern_michigan_news.htm. For information on the implementation of this project in EMU's student teaching program, see Standard 3.
Advanced.
At EMU, the advanced programs for teachers include master's degree programs in early childhood education, elementary education, middle level education, business education, technology education, secondary education, educational media and technology, art education, physical education, music education, common learnings in curriculum (K-12), reading, and special education (cognitively impaired, emotionally impaired, hearing impaired, learning disabilities, physically or otherwise health impaired, and visually impaired).
Among these, there is the advanced study of assessment and analysis of student learning in the following instances: early childhood education, EDPS/ECE 641 Developmental Assessment of the Young Child: Theory and Practice (2 hrs); business education and technology education, BTED 661 Evaluation in Business and Technology Education (3 hrs); common learnings in curriculum (K-12), CURR 650 Improving Instruction through Inquiry and Assessment (2 hrs); reading, RDNG 668 Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Problems (4 hrs); and all special education programs, SPGN 661 Advanced Assessment and Decision-Making (3 hrs).