Publication Type: Symposium Paper
Abstract: This paper reports on a four-year longitudinal study focuses on how one undergraduate elementary teacher education program developed a joint conception of dispositions among stakeholders, communicated with candidates, and implemented a plan for assessing teacher candidates’ dispositions growth over time. Specifically addressed is the innovative practice of candidates using faculty assessment of dispositions along with their own self-assessment to write goals and evaluate dispositional growth.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Disposition theory posits that shifts occur in dispositions toward characters throughout a narrative, yet no empirical evidence exists to support this portion of the theory. This study provides evidence that such shifts occur, and they are positive in nature. Additionally, the study distinguishes between traditional hero characters and antiheroes, noting that viewers of antihero films go through more extreme shifts in disposition and report higher levels of enjoyment than viewers of traditional hero films.

Publication Type: Roundtable
Abstract: this study collects information from and provides analysis of existing disposition measures in all fifty states across the United States. The collected information is being content analyzed using a coding system we have developed to find common perspectives and approaches to teacher disposition assessment across the nation.

Publication Type: Roundtable Presentation
Abstract: This study proposes a model to embark a dimensional analysis for teacher dispositions and proposes a confirmatory factor analytic model as the starting place for such efforts. Using both an assessment tool that is designed to assess and examine the degree to which future teachers are disposed toward technology in educational settings and a large-scale nationally representative data set, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine and validate the underlying dimensionality of disposition as well as the causality among the constructs of the disposition.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: We will explore (1) philosophical and political implications of accredited institutions assessing dispositions, (2) our institution’s system of monitoring dispositions, and (3) comparisons to alternative licensure options.