| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立新竹師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 87 === Performance assessment and portfolio assessment applied to the intern''s professional growth
May-Huai Lo
Abstract
The major purpose of this study was to use the performance-based assessment and the portfolio assessment which gathered the data of the intern''s professional growth. Therefore, the main method of this study was to qualitatively gather data through observation, interviews, and taking place symposiums; and the minor one was to quantitatively administer a questionnaire. These methods were to investigate which assessment items were what the interns should and could do when they prepared for teaching or making their personal portfolios. Besides, thirteen interns'' teaching was observed, and their portfolios were gathering in this study in order to explore whether these two assessments could assess the interns'' professional skills and promote their professional growth, and meantime explore the practical conditions, difficulties and limitations while these two assessments actually conducted. The result manifested the items of the performance assessment and the portfolio assessment: the performance assessment includes four parts--"teacher''s teaching preparation", " how the teacher create the learning environment", "how the teacher guide student learning", and the "teacher professionalism" the items of the portfolio assessment also includes four parts-- "teaching skills", "classroom management", "how to assess student learning, and the "teacher professionalism" and there are four to five assessment items in each part. Besides, because of the explicit assessment items of the two assessments, the assessments were helpful to guide the interns'' growth in teaching and reflective thinking.
Key words: teacher training; performance assessment; portfolio assessment; intern; professional growth; reflective thinking.
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