Assessing Performance and Self Efficacy of Student Teachers.

This symposium evolved from a research interest and the need to develop validity, reliability, and accountability measures to be used in the teacher education program at Delta State University, Mississippi. Researchers wanted to study student teacher self-efficacy and to establish a continuing database on the program's student teachers. The papers are: (1)"Overall Methodology and Results" (Reid Jones and Lauren Dent); (2) "Assessment of Elementary and Secondary School Student Teachers" (Kathleen Jenkins); (3) "Development of the Student Teacher Assessment Instrument (STAI) . Reliability and Validity" (C. H. Cronin and K. B. Jenkins); (4) "Self-Efficacy, Student Teaching, and the Teacher Education Program" (Lynn J. House and Reid Jones); and (5) "Effective Assessment of the Student Teaching Program" (Lynn J. House and K. B. Jenkins). An appendix contains three developed scales. (Contains 27 references.) (SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the ori inal document.