Section archive - Preservice Teachers

The current study explored the assessment literacy of 11 secondary preservice teachers. The authors examined how the preservice teachers understood assessment tools as well as their reasons for using assessment. Furthermore, the authors investigated how the preservice teachers incorporated assessments into inquiry-based science units. Findings reveal that preservice teachers understood several ways to use assessment for learning. However, the inclusion of assessments contained within the science units did not fully align with the views of assessment the preservice teachers presented in their teaching philosophies or journals.

The purpose of this study was to examine Jordanian preservice early childhood teachers' attitudes toward inclusion and the adequacy of their current preparation for implementing inclusion. The study also sought to identify the perceived concerns of preservice early childhood teachers about inclusion in early childhood settings in Jordan.

The current study examines early childhood preservice teachers' beliefs about the importance of music in early childhood. The paper also explores factors that influencing those beliefs. The findings reveal that preservice teachers in this study held relatively strong beliefs about the importance of music, including aesthetic, quality-of-life, and social-emotional benefits. Preservice teachers' beliefs were associated with whether they viewed music as an active tool for development and learning, or as merely an enrichment.

In this article, the authors describe an implementation of digital portfolio development for all of the preservice early childhood educators registered in the infant-toddler and preschool–early elementary programs at a large, urban community college. Three years after implementation of the program, the authors conducted survey research to assess our students' perceptions of their preservice digital portfolio and their experience constructing it.