The Conceptual Model of Evaluation of Expected Competences of the Teacher-Students in Competency-based Teacher Training Curriculum

Evaluating curriculum includes the process of examining the value and competency of the elements and specific aspects of the curriculum, as well as the entire curriculum. Therefore, the aim of this research was to explain the evaluation methods of the expected competencies of the teacher-students in the competency-based teacher education curriculum. Hence a semi-structured interview was carried out using a qualitative approach and discovery of grounded theory with 15 teachers in the teacher education curriculum who were identified by targeted sampling of desirable cases. The content validity of the interview questions was confirmed by experts. The re-encoding reliability was 0.93. The data analysis was performed with Max QDA software version 2007 through three stages of open, axial and selective coding. The findings of this study were presented in the form of three themes and six components. Based on the obtained results we could highlight the necessity of developing a proper curriculum for educating competent teachers and creating an effective educational system along with suitable methods for assessing the competencies of teachers.