ABSTRACT

Data- or evidence-informed decisions that inform continuous improvement of educator preparation programs can clearly not be conducted without the collection of timely, relevant data. Much of the information about a particular teacher candidate’s progression through a program can be captured into the Tk20 data warehouse. However, what Tk20 does not do easily is to aggregate and display the data by stakeholder level. Administrators in the iTeachAZ dashboard are staff from the Office of Clinical Experience who oversee the placement of students in their field teaching experiences and monitor the trajectory of their performances throughout the junior-year field experiences and senior-year residencies. The use of additional filters can identify how different campuses are performing, and the search function allows the administrator to identify specific teacher candidates by name or identification number. Site coordinators have access to the data of all of the teacher candidates and their mentor teachers at a particular school site.