ABSTRACT
Teacher preparation program redesign continues across the nation as programs strive to increase their rigor, relevance, and effectiveness in light of the need for skilled future educators. From the program’s inception, Teaching, Learning, and Leading With Schools and Community (TLLSC) faculty have positioned assessment as a high priority in the larger scope of the program. Faculty set out to develop assessments so that candidate progress and growth could be measured and monitored for each developmental phase of the program: Exploration, Concentration, and Specialization. One example of programmatic assessment design is the creation of a universal set of dispositions aimed at capturing the development of each candidate over the 4-year program. Long before the inception of the TLLSC program, all stakeholders in the School of Education worked to collect all data into LiveText, a centralized assessment management web application. Continual candidate assessment has been integral to the development of TLLSC.
