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ERIC Number: EJ1262233
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1935-3308
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We Learned Each Other and Then We Taught Each Other: A Retrospective Case Study of Collective Classroom Efficacy
Jones, Suzanne H.; Putney, LeAnn G.
Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, v10 n4 p231-246 Sum 2016
The purpose of this case study was to explore a previously theorized construct, Collective Classroom Efficacy, through student voices. We interviewed nine former sixth-graders a decade after their classroom experience as they articulated at a reunion the importance of their former cohesive classroom community. To provide data triangulation we interviewed a former guest teacher and we examined artifacts including student end-of-year reflections, student generated poetry. After conducting content and discourse analysis, results confirmed and extended our prior findings. The initial cornerstone elements of positive classroom environment, persistence and effort, and risk-taking towards interpersonal and academic goals were re-presented in the second case. A fourth element of academic content enacted as disciplinary knowledge provided additional means for students to interact with each other and with content. We demonstrated that a collectively efficacious classroom environment has positive consequences for student efficacy as they developed academic, social, and personal achievement and responsibility.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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