Comprehension assessment questioning dominated over instruction, with only six question-answer sessions classified as instruction¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Teachers' questioning was overwhelmingly assessment rather than instruction: only six question-answer sessions across the study were classified as comprehension instruction. → Dolores Durkin 1978

Evidence¶

Dolores Durkin 1978¶

Dolores Durkin. (1978). What Classroom Observations Reveal About Reading Comprehension Instruction. Technical Report No. 106, Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://doi.org/10.1598/rrq.14.4.2

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Observational classification of teachers' questioning during reading and social studies periods. The article reports that wrong answers were rarely addressed and children never had to justify correct answers, so questioning served assessment, not instruction.

"All these characteristics explain why only six question-answer sessions were classified in the study as "Comprehension: instruction." All the rest were "Comprehension: assessment.""

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Comprehension instruction in resource rooms consisted mostly of teacher question-and-answer monitoring rather than explicit comprehension-strategy instruction — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Social studies periods gave little preparation for reading (1.73 percent) and focused assessment questions on facts — related