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ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHER EVALUATION PRACTICES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA

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Date Issued:
1976
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This study is a descriptive analysis of a population of public school teachers in the Palm Beach County School System. The Palm Beach County School System is the largest in geographical area of the school systems east of the Mississippi River and is presently composed of eighty-four (84) schools. The purpose of this study was to: (1) to discover what teachers perceive to be present practices in the teacher evaluation process, (2) to discover what teachers perceive to be desired practices in the teacher evaluation process, and (3) to gain some new insights concerning these perceptions, which hopefully will help to develop better practices of evaluating teachers. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select the participants in the study. A list containing the names, addresses, teaching assignment, race, sex and teaching status of all teachers in Palm Beach County was used to draw independent random samples from each stratum. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire developed by the investigator. Because of the ordinal nature of the data, a Likert-type scale was used which presented selected issues identified in the literature. The instrument yielded information concerning teachers' perceptions of present practices and desired practices in the teacher evaluation process. It was found that there are discrepancies between what selected teachers perceive to be present practices of teacher evaluation and what they perceive to be desired practices of teacher evaluation. As a result of the data collected and analyzed, the following recommendations are offered: 1. Design and implement county-wide in-service workshops that would prepare all administrators and supervisors to evaluate teachers. Programs designed to improve the evaluating skills of administrators and supervisors are of paramount importance. Such programs should aid in the administration of an evaluation process which is fair to both parties. 2. Formulate a new approach to the teacher evaluation process that would incorporate those things that the majority of teachers feel would be most beneficial. Since teachers are the people who are being evaluated, to include those things that they feel are most beneficial would add a positive aspect to the entire structure of the evaluation process. 3. Study the impact of negotiations on the process of teacher evaluation. Situational aspects of the teachers' job such as class size, length of teachers' work day, size and location of the classroom, availability of classroom supplies, et cetera should be taken into consideration when evaluating teachers. 4. Design graduate courses in education that place greater emphasis on the evaluation of teaching. Discussions of the issues would aid administrators and teachers to establish a more viable solution to the problem of teacher evaluation. 5. Determine and analyze the perceptions of administrators concerning the teacher evaluation process. Research done to determine the perceptions of administrators concerning the teacher evaluation process, compared with the research that has been done to reveal the perceptions of teachers concerning the teacher evaluation process can enhance the chances of developing an evaluation process which will be acceptable to both groups. The teacher evaluation process must be personally useful to each teacher if it is to improve the quality of teacher performance and student achievement. It will also reward the competent, improve the promising, and rechannel the energies of those that are not performing at an acceptable level into fields of endeavor other than the field of education.
Title: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHER EVALUATION PRACTICES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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Name(s): WEBBER, WILHELMENA SWEET.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Kerensky, Vasil M., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 110 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This study is a descriptive analysis of a population of public school teachers in the Palm Beach County School System. The Palm Beach County School System is the largest in geographical area of the school systems east of the Mississippi River and is presently composed of eighty-four (84) schools. The purpose of this study was to: (1) to discover what teachers perceive to be present practices in the teacher evaluation process, (2) to discover what teachers perceive to be desired practices in the teacher evaluation process, and (3) to gain some new insights concerning these perceptions, which hopefully will help to develop better practices of evaluating teachers. The stratified random sampling technique was used to select the participants in the study. A list containing the names, addresses, teaching assignment, race, sex and teaching status of all teachers in Palm Beach County was used to draw independent random samples from each stratum. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire developed by the investigator. Because of the ordinal nature of the data, a Likert-type scale was used which presented selected issues identified in the literature. The instrument yielded information concerning teachers' perceptions of present practices and desired practices in the teacher evaluation process. It was found that there are discrepancies between what selected teachers perceive to be present practices of teacher evaluation and what they perceive to be desired practices of teacher evaluation. As a result of the data collected and analyzed, the following recommendations are offered: 1. Design and implement county-wide in-service workshops that would prepare all administrators and supervisors to evaluate teachers. Programs designed to improve the evaluating skills of administrators and supervisors are of paramount importance. Such programs should aid in the administration of an evaluation process which is fair to both parties. 2. Formulate a new approach to the teacher evaluation process that would incorporate those things that the majority of teachers feel would be most beneficial. Since teachers are the people who are being evaluated, to include those things that they feel are most beneficial would add a positive aspect to the entire structure of the evaluation process. 3. Study the impact of negotiations on the process of teacher evaluation. Situational aspects of the teachers' job such as class size, length of teachers' work day, size and location of the classroom, availability of classroom supplies, et cetera should be taken into consideration when evaluating teachers. 4. Design graduate courses in education that place greater emphasis on the evaluation of teaching. Discussions of the issues would aid administrators and teachers to establish a more viable solution to the problem of teacher evaluation. 5. Determine and analyze the perceptions of administrators concerning the teacher evaluation process. Research done to determine the perceptions of administrators concerning the teacher evaluation process, compared with the research that has been done to reveal the perceptions of teachers concerning the teacher evaluation process can enhance the chances of developing an evaluation process which will be acceptable to both groups. The teacher evaluation process must be personally useful to each teacher if it is to improve the quality of teacher performance and student achievement. It will also reward the competent, improve the promising, and rechannel the energies of those that are not performing at an acceptable level into fields of endeavor other than the field of education.
Identifier: 11674 (digitool), FADT11674 (IID), fau:8609 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
College of Education
Subject(s): Teachers--Rating of--Florida--Palm Beach County
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