Aliasghar Ahmadishokouh^1,, Gholamreza Kiyani¹, Parvaneh Shayestehfar¹

This study was an attempt to shed light on the requirements of components of a teacher educator evaluation model. To this end, 6 branches of Farhangian University, which is the mother University for training pre-service and in-service teachers in Iran and has some branches in different parts of Iran, were randomly selected. A number of 545 teacher educators and student -teachers from these centers were participated in this study. They were both males and females. They were asked to fill a five-Likert scale with 68 items, which was designed based on the American Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) standards, for teacher educators in 2009. To answer the research questions the model went through the process of validation. Expert and content validity of the model were proved. For the process of standardization, data gathered from 5-likert scale questionnaires was given to Amos 18 and SPSS 22. The result from the SEM showed that the goodness of fit for the proposed model was very high. Furthermore, all items showed very high loadings on their latent factors. And the model was confirmed satisfactorily and none of the items was removed. Moreover the result showed that major does not play a significant role in Iranian teacher educators' attitudes toward the evaluation model.

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