Using Assessment Tasks to Develop a Greater Sense of Values Literacy in Pre-service Teachers

A Systematic Review of the Research on the Knowledge and Skills of Australian Preservice Teachers

“…Universities must be open to more research that allows these comparisons to be made, as well as research that explores general levels of PST knowledge. ✓ N Self injury Berger et al (2015) ✓ N Evidence-based practice Carter et al (2015) ✓ N Communication skills Cavanagh et al (2014) ✓ N Values education Christian (2014) ✓ N Physical education Dudley & Baxter (2009) ✓ Y Equity Fenwick & Cooper (2013) ✓ N Behaviour management Yeigh (2013) ✓ N ICT Fluck & Dowden (2011) ✓ N Table 1: Adequacy of PST Knowledge and Conditions in which it was assessed.…”

“…The results of those analyses are presented in Table 3 Five studies (Christian, 2014;Mulholland & Ginns, 2008;Norton, 2012;Taylor et al, 2016;Yeigh, 2013) that used pre and posttests, tested the difference and all showed significant improvement at posttest, apart from one measure of MCK in Norton (2012) that was already high at pretest.…”

Ethics Education in Australian Preservice Teacher Programs: A Hidden Imperative?

“…Embedded in the task was an awareness of ethical issues. Results of the study through a survey analysis of PSTs ethical understanding and deliberation signalled that significant gaps remained in PSTs' ethics understanding (Christian, 2014). Christian (2014) concluded that PSTs must be given greater and more explicit opportunities to study so that they can examine their views and understanding of ethics, echoing earlier similar calls (Bullough, 2011;Sanger & Osguthorpe, 2011).…”

“…Results of the study through a survey analysis of PSTs ethical understanding and deliberation signalled that significant gaps remained in PSTs' ethics understanding (Christian, 2014). Christian (2014) concluded that PSTs must be given greater and more explicit opportunities to study so that they can examine their views and understanding of ethics, echoing earlier similar calls (Bullough, 2011;Sanger & Osguthorpe, 2011). Without specific and complex case studies with which PSTs can grapple, through which they can deliberate potential professional responses critically, and which can reveal to them their own beliefs and philosophy of teaching it is no wonder that they fall back to legalistic and superficial features for their decision making (Chapman et al 2013;Boon, et al 2009;Boon, 2011).…”

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“…Results of the study through a survey analysis of PSTs ethical understanding and deliberation signalled that significant gaps remained in PSTs' ethics understanding (Christian, 2014). Christian (2014) concluded that PSTs must be given greater and more explicit opportunities to study so that they can examine their views and understanding of ethics, echoing earlier similar calls (Bullough, 2011;Sanger & Osguthorpe, 2011). Without specific and complex case studies with which PSTs can grapple, through which they can deliberate potential professional responses critically, and which can reveal to them their own beliefs and philosophy of teaching it is no wonder that they fall back to legalistic and superficial features for their decision making (Chapman et al 2013;Boon, et al 2009;Boon, 2011).…”