Predicting competence in teaching with the aid of academic achievement
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Mar/Apr. 1987
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This paper examines the accuracy with which academic achievement in selected subjects predicts level of performance in teaching. The academic subject areas considered as independent variables include English Language, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, the choice of these independent variables being determined by presently used criteria for selection of uncertificated teachers in several Caribbean countries. The intent of the study is to make inferences to ability to teach or teaching competence as realized after years of experience in the classroom. In the absence of a reliable measure of the ultimately realized level of ability to teach, the final mark assigned for practice teaching at Teachers' Training College (Barbados) was used as the criterion