Experts perceive classroom situations in terms of groups of students while novices devote more visual attention to individual students¶
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q2 i? Experts perceive classroom situations in terms of groups of students rather than primarily focusing on individual students, whereas novices devote more visual attention to individual students. → Charlotte E. Wolff 2020
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Charlotte E. Wolff 2020¶
Charlotte E. Wolff, Halszka Jarodzka, Henny P.A. Boshuizen. (2020). Classroom Management Scripts: a Theoretical Model Contrasting Expert and Novice Teachers' Knowledge and Awareness of Classroom Events. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09542-0
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The article cites eye-tracking research (van den Bogert et al. 2014) for this expert-novice contrast in event representation. It also reports, citing Sabers et al. 1991, that experts actively scan both teacher and student actions while novices primarily perceive events from the teachers' point of view.
"Experts perceive classroom situations in terms of groups of students rather than primarily focusing on individual students, whereas novices devote more visual attention to individual students (van den Bogert et al. 2014)"
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Related Claims¶
- Expert teachers' visual attention is a focused, knowledge-driven search while novices' is scattered and image-driven — related
- Experts show rapid pattern recognition and instantaneous visceral decision-making, while novices rely on prolonged deliberate analysis that may lag events — related
- Expert teachers begin gaze sequences with student fixation and return to students throughout, whereas Hong Kong experts intersperse student scans that UK experts never use — related
- Teaching experience is associated with higher frequency of mental/perceptual and action/event words in think-aloud about classroom scenes — related
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Experts perceive classroom situations in terms of groups of students while novices devote more visual attention to individual students |
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Experts perceive classroom situations in terms of groups of students while novices devote more visual attention to individual students |
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