A Survey of California Educators

This report presents the resufts of a study in which one of the job analysis surveys for the Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for the Beginning Teacher was administered to teachers and teacher educators in California. The purpose of this special administration was to determine if the multidisciplinary content in the test form (Form 1 of Education in the Elementary School) was determined to be important for newly licensed California elementary school teachers. Responses were received from 125 teachers and 57 teacher educators. Frequency distributions across background information categories, mean importance ratings by relevant subgroup, and correlations of mean importance ratings within subgroups were determined. Forty-two knowledge statements (297. of the inventory) were rated below the designated cut poi.pt, but the remaining 103 were considered appropriate for the development of test specifications. Appendixes present the instrument and other forms used in the study and some supplemental infc-.tion. (Contains six tables and five references.) (SLD) * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document.