- Title
- Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions about the Value of Teaching Practice Assessment as a Catalyst to the Improvement of Quality Model
- Creator
- Bako, Yellow
- Subject
- Teaching -- Evaluation Effective teaching
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD (Education)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17921
- Identifier
- vital:41978
- Description
- Teaching Practice assessment is criticized for not promoting critical reflection and problem-solving thinking in pre-service teachers as expected. Pre-service teachers lack praxis: translating theoretical knowledge into authentic practice. Teaching Practice assessment is too traditional to offer authentic evaluation for life-long learning. Globally, Teaching Practice is the greatest academic process in training preservice teachers. However, there are concerns raised regarding what is regarded as inadequate teacher preparation, inconsistencies and subjectivity in Teaching Practice assessment, and misalignment between instructional theory and classroom practice have resulted in high demand for quality improvement of the Teaching Practice assessment framework. The research has adopted the post-positivism research paradigm, mixed methods research approach, and the QUAN-QUAL sequential explanatory research design. The population was all Post Graduate students at one university and all Diploma in Education students at on Teachers College in Zimbabwe. Data collection instruments used were: observations schedule, interviews, questionnaires, and documentary analysis. Results have shown that Teaching Practice assessment was of great value for academic, pedagogical, and teacher professional development. Subject content knowledge posed greater challenge to preservice teachers than pedagogical content knowledge during Teaching Practice assessment. School environment, accommodation, lack of material and financial resources, heavy workload, indiscipline, unexpected assessment visits, and contradictions by assessors were major factors that affected Teaching Practice assessment. Pre-service teachers preferred to be assessed by college-based to university-based assessors because they give them feedback for learning, they motivate, and they understand their plight, and they appear more professional in their conduct than university-based assessors. The study therefore suggests a framework for improving the quality of Teaching Practice that includes a balanced curriculum, intensified training on content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge; a proper collaboration between college and university assessors; training in ICT, and more focused Teaching Practice workload, and the practice of reflective, authentic, and emancipatory assessment practices for sustainable development.
- Format
- 296 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty OF Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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