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Computer-Generated Assessment Reports in Personalized Teacher Education Programs.
Veldman, Donald J.
The COMPASS (Comprehensive Personal Assessment System) Test Battery used in personalized teacher education programs at the University of Texas (Austin) is described. The battery contains seven instruments, four of which provide data that can be used by computer programs to generate verbal-graphic summary reports. The seven instruments are: Biographical Information Form, Adjective Self Description, Self-Report Inventory, Concerns of Teachers, Directed Imagination, One-Word Sentence Completion, and Student Evaluation of Teaching. Student reactions to the Adjective Self-Description instrument verbal-graphic summary reports were as follows: about 80% felt that the reports were easy to understand, interesting, and informative; 85% said they would like detailed interpretation of the results; but less than half felt that the reports helped them in self-discovery. Preference as to mode of feedback showed that students who were sensitizers preferred the personal interview, whereas the repressers preferred feedback by mail. Since the report generators are not designed to produce documents that can be given directly to students, the important benefits are believed to depend on individual interpretation and interchange with a professional counselor. The compiled normative data, in particular, those relating to the sentence completion instrument, have been found to be invaluable for training counselors of students in teacher education. (DB)
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