Teachers acted as assignment givers rather than instructors, using brief mentioning followed by workbook assignments¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1978 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Teachers' brief mentions of topics (e.g., one minute on contractions) preceded workbook assignments and were often insufficiently thorough to let children complete them. → 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

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Qualitative observation across Sub-Study Two classrooms. The article describes a fourth-grade teacher as "clearly an assignment giver, not an instructor" and a third-grade example where 22 minutes covered eight disparate topics before workbook work.

"Although "mentioning" seemed designed to allow children to complete written assignments, it was often insufficiently thorough to achieve that end."

Discussion¶

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