Ann Schulte, associate professor at California State University, Chico, says that preparation programs should be focused on working with and
assessing teacher candidates in the field, so they receive frequent
observations and feedback
during their student teaching experiences from someone with extensive knowledge of their abilities and
classrooms.
Our results thus provided suggestive evidence that the strength of the relationship between teachers»
classroom observation scores and their students» test performance may in part be attributable to the sensitivity of the skills
assessed during observation to those
assessed on the test.