Breaking Out of Silos: Using Classroom Videos for Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Methodological Examinations of Teaching

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Great advances have been made in how we conceptualize, operationalize and measure aspects of teaching quality. However, this field of research is suffering from fragmentation and scholars tend to work in silos, drawing on their own specific framework despite what are often strong commonalities in ambition, terminology, and teaching facets captured. This symposium uses classroom videos as a common ground to break out of our silos analyzing the same videos with two qualitative and two pre-defined/quantitative frameworks. Each contributor presents patterns of findings derived and afforded by their respective framework. To that end, we especially discuss patterns of teaching quality and how differences in the conceptualization might shape the construction of findings as well as limitations and affordances across frameworks.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 3a: Learning Environments

Chair

• Kirsti Klette, University of Oslo

Papers

• The PLATO Observation System As a Lens to Teaching Quality - Kirsti Klette, University of Oslo; Mark Christopher White, University of Oslo

• Different Frameworks, Same Goal? A Systematic Comparison of Two Observation Manuals to Measure Teaching Quality - Tosca Daltoè, University of Tübingen; Alexander Viktor Selling, University of Oslo

• JAD-MTQ; Model for Teaching Quality Based On The Joint Action Framework in Didactics - Florence Ligozat, University of Geneva; Yoann Buyck, University of Geneva

• Using Documentary Video Analysis (DVA) to Qualitatively Reconstruct and Assess Teaching Quality - Patrick Schreyer, University of Kassel; Marte Blikstad-Balas, University of Oslo

Discussant

• Pamela L. Grossman, University of Pennsylvania