TY - JOUR
T1 - Construction of the situational judgment tests for teachers
AU - Chao, Tzu Yang
AU - Sung, Yao Ting
AU - Huang, Jia-Li
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors appreciate the funding support from the Higher Education Sprout Project of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan [grant nos. HESP-0218], the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [grant nos. 102-2911-I-003-301 and 102-2511-S-003-001-MY3], and the Department of Teacher and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan [grant nos. 105A0110 and 107A0033]. We would like to thank the participants for providing their data to contribute to this study. We would also like to thank the research team members, Ming-Hui Hsu, Hui-Ning Kuo, and Wen-Ju Yao, for their contribution during this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Australian Teacher Education Association.
PY - 2020/8/7
Y1 - 2020/8/7
N2 - Situational Judgment Tests for Teachers (SJTTs) were developed as an alternative to the existing evaluation programs for selecting student teachers. A Situational Judgment Test for Middle-school Teachers (SJTMT), a Situational Judgment Test for Primary-school Teachers (SJTPT), and a Situational Judgment Test for Early-childhood Teachers (SJTET) have been developed by 30, 20, and 10 senior teachers, respectively. We recruited a total of 5,039 Taiwanese university students as participants, to evaluate the reliability and validity of these SJTTs. The reliability coefficients of the booklets in the SJTMT, SJTPT and SJTET fell between.19 and.74. In regards to validity, a Rasch analysis revealed that most of the SJTTs’ items fit the uni-dimensional Rasch model. Additionally, students who enrolled in teacher education programs have significantly higher scores on the SJTTs than those who did not attend these programs, providing known-group validity. An online SJTTs system was also set up to serve all the universities in Taiwan. This study discusses the construction and the practical application of SJTTs for the selection of student teachers.
AB - Situational Judgment Tests for Teachers (SJTTs) were developed as an alternative to the existing evaluation programs for selecting student teachers. A Situational Judgment Test for Middle-school Teachers (SJTMT), a Situational Judgment Test for Primary-school Teachers (SJTPT), and a Situational Judgment Test for Early-childhood Teachers (SJTET) have been developed by 30, 20, and 10 senior teachers, respectively. We recruited a total of 5,039 Taiwanese university students as participants, to evaluate the reliability and validity of these SJTTs. The reliability coefficients of the booklets in the SJTMT, SJTPT and SJTET fell between.19 and.74. In regards to validity, a Rasch analysis revealed that most of the SJTTs’ items fit the uni-dimensional Rasch model. Additionally, students who enrolled in teacher education programs have significantly higher scores on the SJTTs than those who did not attend these programs, providing known-group validity. An online SJTTs system was also set up to serve all the universities in Taiwan. This study discusses the construction and the practical application of SJTTs for the selection of student teachers.
KW - Rasch model
KW - situational judgment tests for teachers
KW - student teachers
KW - teacher education
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U2 - 10.1080/1359866X.2019.1633621
DO - 10.1080/1359866X.2019.1633621
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067658544
VL - 48
SP - 355
EP - 374
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
SN - 1359-866X
IS - 4
ER -