Teacher Education Instruments

Student Program Evaluations

Instrument 2: RMTEC Induction Year Survey

Project: Rocky Mountain Teacher Education Collaborative (RMTEC)
University of Northern Colorado/Colorado State University, CSMATE

Funding Source: NSF: Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (DUE)

Purpose: To follow-up with program graduates to assess program impact on their teaching

Administered To: First-year math and science teachers who had been students in courses taught by participants in the collaborative

Topics Covered:

• Comparisons: prior coursework
• Impact on Outcomes: instructional methods
• Implementation Activities: activities, assessment, collaboration, curriculum/materials, equipment/technology, methods
• Program Evaluation: areas for program improvement, exemplary areas, follow-up
• Background Characteristics & Activities (Student): academic focus, current coursework, project involvement

Format/Length: 44 questions, 38 closed- and 6 open-ended, plus 4 demographic questions. Questions include Likert scales and space for general comments.

The purpose of this survey is to better understand the impact of the Rocky Mountain Teacher Education Collaborative (RMTEC), an NSF grant to improve the education of secondary math and science teachers, on first year math and science teachers. The information you provide us is very important and will be reported as group data. Data for individual respondents will not be reported by the Evaluation Team. Thank you very much for your help.

1. Where are you teaching (name of school and district)?

    

2. What grade level are you teaching?

   What subject(s) are you teaching?

    

3. Where did you do your student teaching?

   Who was your cooperating teacher?

    

4. What was your college major?  Minor?

    

5. Please put a check by the following MSCD courses in which you were enrolled and completed. For those courses that you checked, please try to rate each in terms of its helpfulness to you in your present teaching situation.

     CHE 180 General Chemistry I (Dr. Lind) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     CHE 181 General Chemistry II (Dr. Schonbeck) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     EDS 321-322 Curriculum and Field Experience
     (Fall 1994, Spring 1995, or Spring 1997) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     EDS 321 Curriculum in Secondary Schools (Dr. Box) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     EDT 480 Educational Technology (Spring 1996, Mr. Putka) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     MTH 310 Math Proofs (Dr. Loats) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     MTH 360 Math History (Dr. Loats) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     MTH 361 Math Methods (Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1995, Spring 1996, or Spring 1997 ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     MTH 365 Geometry (Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, or Spring 1997) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     MTH 390 Math Modeling (Fall 1994, Dr. Kelley) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     PHY 201 College Physics I (Dr. Krantz) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     RDG 328 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas (Dr. Bailey) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

     SCI 395 Science Methods (Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, or Spring 1997) ______
   

   not helpful ____

   somewhat helpful ____

   very helpful ____

    

6. Please rate each of the following college courses and/or experiences in terms of its helpfulness to you in your present teaching situation:

    

   	not helpful	somewhat helpful	very helpful
   other math courses	____	____	____
   other science courses	____	____	____
   other education courses	____	____	____
   faculty at MSCD	____	____	____
   RMTEC staff (Flo, Kelly etc.)	____	____	____
   Teachers-in-Residence (Jay Moore, Peg Roding, Rosanne Fulton, Robert Putka, Erin Mann, Dee Bond)	____	____	____
   student teaching	____	____	____

7. Please rate the frequency of your use of the following teaching strategies, which are consistent with RMTEC.

    

   Strategy	never	occasionally	regularly
   Cooperative groups	____	____	____
   Use of technology	____	____	____
   Use/solution of real world applications/problems	____	____	____
   In-class discussion	____	____	____
   Ongoing student self-evaluation techniques	____	____	____
   Activities involving writing	____	____	____
   Alternative assessments	____	____	____
   Consistency with state standards	____	____	____
   Making connections to other fields (science and non-science	____	____	____
   Constructivist methods	____	____	____
   Solution of complex	____	____	____
   problems by students	____	____	____
   Attention to creating learning settings sensitive to cultural differences	____	____	____
   Attention to creating learning settings sensitive to gender differences	____	____	____
   Chances for students to ask questions in class	____	____	____
   Hands-on learning	____	____	____
   Student/group presentations	____	____	____

8. Please add any other comments and/or suggestions regarding the RMTEC grant, to improve the education of math and science teachers.

    

    

    

    

    

9. The following services have been available to support first year RMTEC teachers. Please check the ones you have utilized:

   ____	seminar meetings with RMTEC staff (Peg Rodding, Jay Moore, and/or Mark O'Shea)
   ____	visits to your school by RMTEC staff
   ____	other (please describe):

   Please comment about the value of the service(s) experienced above (in #9).

    

    

    

    

    

10. We want to help first year RMTEC teachers overcome problems of first year teaching. In the space below, please identify one or more problem areas and the kind of help you believe RMTEC could provide in resolving them.