Throughout the year-long internship, teacher candidate performance is monitored through a standards-based PBA instrument. Each program area has its own version of a field PBA that reflects INTASC, EDoT, and SPA standards, as well as the college’s conceptual framework. The instrument is completed quarterly by the candidate’s mentor teacher, and is reviewed quarterly during a three-way conference between the mentor teacher, intern, and university supervisor. Thus the instrument provides both the candidate and the university faculty with on-going information about intern performance that is used to inform and guide the internship experience.

All on-line performance-based assessments (PBAs) follow the same general process, although some of the following steps are repeated and/or run concurrently (primarily during assessment), depending on the program. In a generic form, these steps are:

1. Student interns (candidates) apply to the system
2. Mentor teachers apply to the system (if not already included)
3. PDS Coordinators match a student to a mentor
4. PDS Coordinators match a student to a supervisor (process varies by program)
5. Students complete self-assessment(s)
6. Mentors complete student assessments
7. Supervisors complete a final assessment
8. Individual and/or program reports are run
9. Unit-wide cross-program data is compiled (1x per internship-year)
10. Program administrators oversee the process

Each program has tailored the on-line PBA system to meet their program's needs. This includes individual assessment instruments, assessment schedule and timing, structure, reports, etc. Below you can see the customization that each program has done within the on-line PBA system.