Only a minority of teacher educators interpreted a critical classroom-management incident as theoretically expected, despite marked eye-tracking differences¶
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q2 i? Only six of twenty-eight teacher educators interpreted a critical incident featuring teacher-initiated disruptive behavior as expected by the researchers. → Nückles 2021
q2 i? Fixation times on the protagonist student markedly differed between the six teacher educators who mentioned the disruptive teacher behavior and the far majority who did not. → Nückles 2021 (2)
Evidence¶
Nückles 2021¶
Nückles, M. (2021). Investigating Visual Perception in Teaching and Learning with Advanced Eye-Tracking Methodologies: Rewards and Challenges of an Innovative Research Paradigm. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09567-5
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Wyss et al. expert-novice study using the critical incident technique with teacher educators (second order practitioners) watching a video clip on classroom management; verbal protocols showed the expected interpretation was rare.
"it is quite surprising that only six out of the twenty-eight teacher educators interpreted the critical incident as expected by the researchers."
Nückles 2021 (2)¶
Nückles, M. (2021). Investigating Visual Perception in Teaching and Learning with Advanced Eye-Tracking Methodologies: Rewards and Challenges of an Innovative Research Paradigm. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09567-5
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Eye-tracking data from the same Wyss et al. study; combining verbal protocols with eye-tracking suggests none of the teacher students and only a minority of second order practitioners interpreted the incident as theoretically expected.
"the eye-tracking data Wyss et al. collected showed marked and unequivocal differences in fixation times on the protagonist student in the video clip between the six teacher educators who mentioned the disruptive teacher behavior and the far majority of participants"
Discussion¶
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Only a minority of teacher educators interpreted a critical classroom-management incident as theoretically expected, despite marked eye-tracking differences |
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Only a minority of teacher educators interpreted a critical classroom-management incident as theoretically expected, despite marked eye-tracking differences |
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