High teacher mediation is associated with more children talking and higher frequency of both elaborated and restricted talk¶
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Evidence · 1 study · associationalr1·q2
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q2 i? Greater numbers of children in higher-mediating teachers' classes made more elaborated communications and also the greatest number of restricted communications. → Stecher 1976
Evidence¶
Stecher 1976¶
Stecher, Judith S. (1976). A Description of Teacher Verbal Mediation and of Children's Verbal Coding in Selected Early Childhood Classrooms. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED126733
q2 · i? · associational · r1
Results section of the classroom observation study: "high mediation was associated with both the greathst numberof children talking and the higher frequency of elaborated and restrictedtalk in nearly every category". No effect size is printed for this contrast.
"greater numbers of children in the classes of the higher mediatingteachers not only made more elaborated communications, butalsp the'greatest number of restricted communicitions"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- More children who could shift codes were found in the classroom of the highest mediating teacher — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Elaborated coding was associated with higher reading scores among the observed children — related
- Teacher mediation interacts with SES: the SES gap in elaborated utterances appears only in the low-mediating classroom — related
- Findings on teacher mediation patterns differ from the Gahagans' conclusion of no difference in teacher verbal mediation — related
- Reducing the number of children in a presentation and letting them describe similarities and differences made children's knowledge visible to the teacher — related
- The intervention increased students' elaborated explanations and cumulative and exploratory talk — related
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High teacher mediation is associated with more children talking and higher frequency of both elaborated and restricted talk |
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High teacher mediation is associated with more children talking and higher frequency of both elaborated and restricted talk |
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1976 |
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