The Evaluation of a University-School Partnership Model: A Longitudinal Study on "University Within School"

• In Event: 64.087 - MTCC Roundtable Session 28
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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to evaluate ‘University within School,’ a university-school partnership model for teacher education. The model is being evaluated according to its six main goals over three-year implementation. A descriptive study is designed to explore the views of 346 students in a K-8 level partner school; 10 college faculty; 11 administrators in partner school and university; and 88 undergraduate students (tutors). Five-point and seven-point Likert-type scales developed by the researchers were administrated to 455 participants. The results showed that 82.95% of the K-8 students reported that college faculty teaching them were very helpful, they were very knowledgeable about the content (82.28%) and their teaching method was very successful (82.28%).

Authors

• Mustafa - Ozcan, MEF University

• Bengi Birgili, MEF University