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Teachers for A New Era Neag School of Education
Teachers for A New Era (TNE) Assessment Committee
Teacher Preparation ProgramsFall 2007 Common
Entry Survey Results
Mary E. Yakimowski Katherine Picho Rohini
Sen October 19, 2007
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Overview

• Background Purpose
• Key Research Questions
• Results
• Findings

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Background Purpose
Entry Survey

• TNEs Common Entry Survey
• Incoming junior students in 2007
• Integrated Bachelors/Masters Teacher Education
  (IB/M)
• Teacher Certification Program for College
  Graduates (TCPCG)

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Background Purpose
Entry Survey

• The purpose of this survey is to obtain
• views, expectations, goals, and perceptions of
  their teacher preparation program, and
• attitudes and opinions dispositions content
  standards

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Background Purpose
Entry Survey

• This year, there has been an exciting new
  addition to the Common Entry Survey.
• A new supplemental survey for TCPCG and IBM
  students was administered in addition to the
  original one. This change was made in keeping
  with the principles of NCATE, The National
  Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
• The purpose of this supplemental survey was to
  obtain the students views regarding dispositions
  and content standards.

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Background Purpose
Entry Survey

• The Survey was divided into 2 sections A.
  Teacher Dispositions and B. Content Standards.
• Section A deals with ascertaining the degree to
  which the students think they possess certain
  teacher disposition characteristics.
• Section B ascertains how confident the student is
  in performing the elements of national standards
  in their classroom instruction i.e. it records
  the students perception of how well they are
  delivering the standards asked in the survey.

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Key Research Questions
Entry Survey

• These students background
• Their goals at Neag School
• Their evaluation of Neag School
• Standards and Dispositions

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Results
Entry Survey
Background Information

• Student Demographics
• IB/M 90.7 females, 87.9 white, age 21-22
  years old, 93.5 native English speakers TCPCG
  39.6 females, 89.6 white, 23-25 years old,
  93.8 native English speakers.

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Results
Entry Survey
Background Information - cont

• Education background
• IB/M 37.4 average achieving school,
• 60.7 high achieving school
• TCPCG 47.9 average achieving school,
• 45.8 high achieving school.
• Parents education (completed college)
• mother 47.7 IB/M and 52.1 TCPCG
• father 56 IB/M and 56.3 TCPCG

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Results
Entry Survey

• Goals to Achieve at Neag School

• Future Teaching Plan
• Most IB/M students focus on elementary/high
  school education
• Majority TCPCG students focus on middle/high
  school education.

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Results
Entry Survey

• Goals to Achieve at Neag School - cont

• Subject specialty (IB/M)
• 95.8 plan to have a subject area specialty,
• 35.5 selected English as the preferred area.
• Subject specialty (TCPCG)
• 94.3 plan to have a subject area specialty,
  22.9 selected Social Studies as the preferred
  area.

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Results
Entry Survey

• Goals to Achieve at Neag School - cont

• IB/M
• Some plan to earn another major or minor degree
  outside of education
• TCPCG
• Not reported

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Results
Entry Survey

• Efficacy of Teaching

• Both groups are confident with their teaching
  ability (5 point scale)
• IB/M mean 3.4
• TCPCG mean 3.0

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Results
Entry Survey
Future Teaching Plans

• Type of school they plan to teach
• Majority plan to teach in a suburban school,
  middle SES students, a mix of both students of
  color and white students.
• Most believe they will join the schools they plan
  to teach.

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Results
Entry Survey
Future Teaching Plans - cont

• How long they intend to teach
• IB/M 50 expect to teach 20 to 30 years 33
  expect 30 to 50 years
• TCPCG 40 expect to teach 20 to 30 years, 40
  will teach 30 to 50 years.

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Results
Entry Survey

• In the IBM version of the supplemental survey,
  students were asked which of the following
  fields/specialty they wanted to primarily pursue.
  The majority of the students responded positively
  (100), with Elementary Education being the most
  frequent area of specialty (31.71 See Table 12
  in report).
• In the TCPCG version of the supplemental survey,
  students were asked the same i.e. which of the
  following fields/specialty they wanted to
  primarily pursue. The majority of the students
  responded positively (100), with English and
  History/Social Studies being the most frequent
  area of specialty (22.5 each See Table 14 in
  report).

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Table 12 Subject Frequencies
Entry Survey
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Table 14 Subject Frequencies
Entry Survey

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B. Content Standards

• Section B records the students perception of how
  well they are delivering the standards asked in
  the survey. The student is asked to pick a field
  they want to primarily pursue, and then is
  administered a customized standards
  questionnaire pertaining to the chosen field.
• These fields are
• -Elementary Education
• -English
• -History/Social Studies
• -Science
• -Mathematics
• -World language
• -Special Education
• -Agricultural Education
• -Other (Specify)

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Standards

• Every field has its own list of content standard
  questions. The means and standard deviations for
  each of these have been recorded in tables 12
  through 15.7 in Common Survey Entry Report Draft
  2007.
• For the presentation an overall mean and standard
  deviation of all the questions (under each field)
  is presented in the next couple of slides.

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IBM Standards Overall Mean and Standard
Deviation
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TCPCG Standards Overall Mean and Standard
Deviation
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• Thank You!