A Novel Adoption of Two Online Teaching Self-Evaluation Instruments Among a Public Pre-K–12 Teacher Sample

• In Event: Supporting K–12 Teaching and Learning With Online Resources and Tools

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to close their buildings, public PK12 educators in the US had to pivot to something they had never done before or been trained to do: teach online. While significant research exists on how educators learn to teach online in higher education and specialty PK12 settings, the pandemic provided a novel opportunity to explore how the general teaching population feels about and learns to teach online. We present the novel adoption of two online teaching self-evaluation instruments and initial findings from an ongoing study of PK12 teachers across 10 public school districts in the MidAtlantic US. Survey data sheds light on how to measure teachers’ self-evaluations of their online teaching strategies and self-efficacy.

Authors

• Virginia Byrne, Morgan State University

• Diane Jass Ketelhut, University of Maryland - College Park