ERIC Number: EJ968054
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Jun
Pages: 22
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Measuring Usable Knowledge: Teachers' Analyses of Mathematics Classroom Videos Predict Teaching Quality and Student Learning
Kersting, Nicole B.; Givvin, Karen B.; Thompson, Belinda J.; Santagata, Rossella; Stigler, James W.
American Educational Research Journal, v49 n3 p568-589 Jun 2012
This study explores the relationships between teacher knowledge, teaching practice, and student learning in mathematics. It extends previous work that developed and evaluated an innovative approach to assessing teacher knowledge based on teachers' analyses of classroom video clips. Teachers watched and commented on 13 fraction clips. These written analyses were coded using objective rubrics to yield a reliable and valid indicator of their usable teaching knowledge. Previous work showed this measure to correlate with another measure of teacher knowledge and to predict students' learning from the teachers' fraction instruction. In this study, the authors replicated those findings and further showed that the effect of teacher knowledge on student learning was mediated by instructional quality, measured using video observations of teachers' lessons. (Contains 3 tables and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Middle School Teachers, Measures (Individuals), Instructional Effectiveness, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Correlation, Statistical Analysis, Models
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Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Middle Schools
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