Development of a Situational Judgment Task for Assessing Teacher Leadership in Mathematics

• In Event: 32.047 - Teacher Leadership: New Conceptualizations for Research and Practice

Abstract

Increasingly content area projects and programs at the K-12 level, such as in mathematics, involve a programmatic component or project emphasis on developing “teacher leadership”. However, there is no consistent definition or consensus framework for this construct and even fewer validated tools for measuring it. This paper describes our efforts in developing such a framework, constructing a situational judgment test instrument for measuring it, and validating the instrument. The developed instrument shows promise in being able to reliability measure constructs associated with the concept of teacher leadership in mathematics.

Authors

• Bret Feranchak, Logos Consulting Group, LLC

• Megan Deiger, Loyola University Chicago