An Examination of Instrument Design Requirement for Educator Preparation Programs

• In Event: Dismantling Assessment Data Demands, Design, and Administration in Educator Preparation

Abstract

The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) requires data collection to track program quality across Educator Preparation Providers. In its assessment rubric, CAEP advocates an even number of choices to eliminate neutral responses. To examine potential issues in assessment outcomes, survey data are gathered in this study from a unit operation survey that was endorsed by a national accreditation team in the past. Based on a theoretical framework of hypothesis testing that models the dichotomy of odd- vs. even- number of choices, the result did not show negative evidence against the use of a Likert-type scale with a midpoint option for neutral responses.

Author

• Jianjun Wang, California State University - Bakersfield