Poster #60 - Relationship Between Teachers' Collaboration, Group Use in Reading Teaching, and Student Achievements

• In Event: 79.052 - MTCC Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: 79.052-7 - Exploring Issues in Large-Scale Assessments

Abstract

How teacher collaborate with each other is assumed to influence how they teach and thus, their student learning. This study specifically examines this assumption to understand the influence of different kinds of teacher collaboration on the kinds of group work in they used in teaching and thus, their student reading achievements. It draws on the data from PIRLS and uses HLM in analysis. It found when interacting with each other more in professional development, teachers were more likely to used mixed-ability group more. When working together on a same topic, they used the same-ability group more in teaching. The more mix-ability group teachers used, the more likely their students would have the better reading achievements.

Authors

• Lu Guo, Sam Houston State University

• Jian Wang, Texas Tech University

• Nan Wu, Texas Tech University

• Joseph Junlong Ji, Texas Tech University