Assessing pre-service teachers' quality teaching practices

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design and validate the Assessing Quality Teaching Rubrics (AQTR) that assesses the pre-service teachers' quality teaching practices in a live lesson or a videotaped lesson. Twenty-one lessons taught by 13 Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students were videotaped. The videotaped lessons were evaluated using the AQTR. The results indicated that the AQTR established ecological and construct validity and demonstrated a high degree of inter-rater reliability and internal consistency. It was concluded that the AQTR was a psychometrically supported measure.