| 英文摘要 |
The study aims to understand the process, effects and influencial factors of beginning teachers' formative evaluation. This study adopts a qualitative approach to collect information by using methods of participant observation, interviews and document analysis in an elementary school. The results revealed that effects of formative evaluations are as follows: (1) Individual level: the effects for beginning teachers are improvement of their teaching performance, accumulation of good professional practices, direct professional learning instead of wasting time in trial-and-error and satisfying their professional needs. The benefits for evaluators is transferring wisdom and experience to beginning teachers and also reflecting upon professional self-performance from evaluating beginning teachers. (2) Interpersonal level: all the participated teachers made a professional networking for consultation. (3) Collective level: creating new paths for teachers' professional development and shaping a new evaluation culture of mutual learning in evaluations. However, it needs to devote much more time and energy to enhance the ability of class management of beginning teachers. The influencial factors of beginning teacher formative evaluation include evaluators' professional competence and personality, time and workload of participants, related resources at schools, beginning teachers' culture of respecting seniors.
Based on the conclusions, recommendations are presented accordingly. |