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Re: TeacherInsight - Thoughts & Advice
Posted by Jodi on 6/30/09

    On 6/23/09, Miss Independent wrote:
    > Hello! I wanted to ask everyone what they thought of the
    > Gallup test named Teacher Insight. If you haven't heard of
    > it, basically most districts use it as a preliminary
    > "teacher personality" test. Perhaps it would be more
    > accurate to say it is used as a screening tool. You can
    > apparently "fail" the test, but you do not receive the
    > scores to the test.
    >
    > I've taken it before and I was honest, but for those
    > positions, I wondered if I was not called back based upon
    > the test results alone.
    >
    > The test is on a likert scale from strongly disagree to
    > strongly agree. Imagine questions such as, "I always prefer
    > Mexican food to Chinese food." A few questions later you
    > read a statement such as, "I sometimes eat Chinese food."
    > It's almost as if though you're being tested on
    consistency.
    > (Obviously, though these questions have an education slant,
    > but I couldn't remember how to precisely word them.)
    >
    > I've heard that to pass the test you have to choose
    strongly
    > agree or disagree and choose student centered response, but
    > that's the most information I've found.
    >
    > What do you think of the test? What advice would you give
    to
    > others who will take the test soon?
    >
    > I have a job offer and was getting ready to go to a
    > different city and sign the contract, but hiring procedures
    > have just recently added the TeacherInsight survey as part
    > of its hiring process. I'm a bit nervous as you can
    imagine.
    >
    > Any advice at all can and will help.
    I think the teacherinsight survey sucks! What does that tell
    them? That you can guess right and get a job?

     
     

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