Teacher attitude rating scales for educational assessments

Personality Rating

Attitude rating scale

For each question, circle one that best matches your perspective:

The state wide educational assessment will improve the levels of education.

Definitely agree

Agree iii. Disagree iv. Definitely disagree

The state wide educational assessment and the goals are well understood by all the teachers within the state.

Definitely agree

Agree iii. Disagree iv. Definitely disagree

The state wide educational assessment meets the dynamic contemporary needs of the students.

Definitely agree

Agree iii. Disagree iv. Definitely disagree

The state wide educational assessment should be made more regular than it is.

Definitely agree

Agree iii. Disagree iv. Definitely disagree

The state wide educational assessment enables the teachers to know the weakness of the students.

Definitely agree

Agree iii. Disagree iv. Definitely disagree

The state wide educational assessment enables the teachers to know their own weaknesses.

i. Definitely agree

ii. Agree iii. Disagree iv. Definitely disagree

While filing in the questionnaire above, the teacher will be influenced to be honest in the details since this will be an anonymous survey hence there will b e no fear of direct intimidation or exposing of the answers given. The other aspect is that being that the teacher is in the profession that the survey covers, he is in the best position to give the honest answers and lastly the fact that self report inventory are given in terms of closed ended questions, he will not have to struggle to come up with an answer which may be incorrect or dishonest but will just pick from the multiple choices.

The forced choice rating come with some advantages for instance they are easy to enter, relatively easy to analyze, easy to present, there is quick turnaround, they are more reliable, the research bias is reduced and there is also high degree of anonymity. However, it also comes with some disadvantages for instance the questions are harder to construct as well as the response category, they may force invalid responses, there is less depth and substance in such answers. Here, the respondents are not able to clarify their answers or what they mean.

The above constructed survey tool seeking to know the attitude towards the state-wide assessment was a strong survey tool since it focused on the details surrounding the views of the teacher towards the assessment. It covered both the side of the teacher and the side of the students and the general public hence was well balanced. The challenge that this survey tool faces is that it is more of the researcher speaking and the respondent just has to pick from the expressions of the researcher and has no room to input their independent thoughts into the survey. The survey tool is also limited in terms of the full understanding of the reason behind the attitude that may come forth from the results.

Interests and Personality Assessments

The test that will used in this context is the Strong Interest Inventory which is portrayed as the test that can help one make informed career choice and education. It is a self-assessment that works with the thematic approach to the interests of the individual These thematic areas are often six in the context of this assessment which are; realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional. It is important however to know that Strong measures the interest of an individual not the skills or the abilities (Grutter J. & Hammer A.L., 2012).

This personality assessment can help one achieve satisfaction in their job, identify the most fitting careers, choose the right educational training, maintain balance between work and leisure, determine the preferred learning environment, one can learn of their preferred leadership style, risk likely to take and approach to teamwork, direct the career exploration and generally decide on the focus of the future (Thorndike R.M. & Thorndike-Christ, T.M., 2009:Pp450).