Teacher Training Products : The State of the Field. Research and Development Memorandum No. 116 / Margaret Bierly and Others.

This report describes the development and contents of a computerized catalog of teacher training products. The catalog was compiled by the staff of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching (SCRDT) Program on Teaching Effectiveness as part of an effort to develop a systematic teacher training model. A 117-item product description form developed by the staff was used to analyze and describe each of the 657 products entered in the catalog. This report presents the frequency and distribution of product characteristics according to the following major categories: developers, subject matter specificity, target outcomes for teachers, target outcomes for students, product availability, the nature of the training situation (including whether materials must be supplied by the user), and the availability of field test results. The extent of agreement among the analysts in describing products was tested on a sample of six products. The range of values was 3 (maximum disagreement) to 6 (maximum agreement). The overall mean agreement on the 117 descriptors was 5.7. For 45% of the products, the developers responded to a request for verification of the description of their products. The compilation and tabulations show what areas of teaching and what teaching skills product developers had addressed as of the fall of 1973. The means of making the catalog available outside SCRDT are under consideration. The catalog is not included in this report. (Authors)

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