Comparing Vignette Instruction and Assessment Tasks to Classroom Observations and Reflections
| Autor: | Carolyn Jeffries, Dale W. Maeder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | The Teacher Educator. 46:161-175 |
| ISSN: | 1938-8101 0887-8730 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08878730.2011.552667 |
| Popis: | The growing body of research on the use of vignettes in teacher education courses suggests that vignette-based instruction and assessment tasks may represent a viable alternative to traditional forms of scaffolded instruction and reflective essays following classroom observations, thereby creating a bridge between college and K–12 classrooms for teacher candidates. In this study, the authors compare the effectiveness of vignette instruction and assessment tasks with teacher observation-reflections on subject matter mastery in two sections of an online graduate educational psychology course. One section completed vignette assessment tasks while a second section wrote reflective essays following K–12 classroom observations. Both sections also completed a cumulative posttest (ten forced-choice items, a vignette task, and a video reflection task). Results confirmed the null hypothesis that there would be no significant differences in mastery of subject matter across the two groups, extending the effective app... |
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