In the student sample, the three areas of the MS were reduced to two dimensions (students vs. teachers) with curriculum items loading highly either on the student or on the teacher dimension.
In this study, we present data on the development of Young Children's Appraisals of Teacher Support (Y-CATS), a measure designed to explore children's perceptions of their relations with teachers along dimensions that comprise warmth, conflict, and autonomy.
The PTMQ might be a suitable instrument for adding an additional teacher-centred dimension to the evaluation of teaching in a clinical context as proposed by Ten Cate et al. [ 21].
However, item 8 ("My parents usually attend parent meetings at my school") had factor loadings between.30 and.40 in the 'parent involvement' and 'student-teacher relations' dimensions, appearing to not discriminate the responses between the dimensions.
The aim is to maximise the number of available observations and to obtain more reliable estimates by group of teachers for each dimension of analysis.
The framework developed by the first group of 12 clinical teachers included four dimensions (Expertise, Teaching Ability, Attitudes and Traits, and Beliefs and Values), 11 sub-dimensions, and 40 indicators (Table 1).
The system, which requires principals to rate teachers on 22 dimensions in all, is based on the premise that teachers can improve when given accurate, extensive and rigorous feedback about their work.
The literature has shown that clear stratification of teachers exists along dimensions of undergraduate institution selectivity, experience, subject matter, and certification status (Darling-Hammond 2001, Boyd et al. (2002), and Table 1 in this study).
Bloom focuses primarily on the cognitive dimension; most teachers rely heavily on the six levels of the cognitive domain to shape the way in which they deliver content in the classroom.
After creating value-added to student attendance, this paper further investigates how this new dimension of teacher effectiveness influences student high school graduation and dropout above and beyond teachers' impact on student test scores.
