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Revisiting disposition assessment in teacher education: Broadening the focus
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (2008)
  • Eunjoo Jung
  • D Rhodes
Abstract
Today’s teacher education programs across the world strive to equip future teachers with the high quality knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to teach students. The assessment of teacher dispositions has thus become essential to cultivate those qualities. However, the current approach to disposition assessment in the United States focuses on personal characteristics and character-related dispositions and is frequently used as a sorting device to identify those who appear to be inadequately disposed to teaching. Expanding on earlier works (Jung, 2004; Jung, Rhodes, & Vogt, 2006), this paper examines the issue of whether more efforts should be made to incorporate elements to assess competence-related dispositions in conjunction with the character-related dispositions across assessment tools and, if so, how this could be accomplished. In addition, this paper clarifies some dispositional concepts and terms used interchangeably that actually differ from one another and can confuse the consistency of disposition assessment. Finally, a framework for assessing technology disposition as an example of competence-related disposition and for broadening the focus of disposition assessment is suggested.
Keywords
  • teacher dispositions,
  • teacher education,
  • assessment
Publication Date
2008
Citation Information
Eunjoo Jung and D Rhodes. "Revisiting disposition assessment in teacher education: Broadening the focus" Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 33 Iss. 6 (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eunjoo_jung/11/