Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Borg, Walter R.

Titel

Protocol Materials as Related to Teacher Performance and Pupil Achievement

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of educational research (Washington, D.C.), 1975-09, Vol.69 (1), p.23-30

Ort / Verlag

Bloomington, Ill: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

1975

Quelle

EBSCOhost Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An experimental group of 25 in service intermediate grade teachers were trained using four protocol modules which covered 12 specific teaching behaviors. Their performance before and after training was observed and compared with the performance of 15 comparable control group teachers. The experimental group teachers made significant gains on all 12 teaching behaviors and significantly exceeded the control group teachers on four of these. There was some evidence of contamination that probably accounts for pins made by the control group. At the end of the study, all teachers taught a 4-hour content unit in their own classrooms and their pupils were given two achievement measures that focused on the content unit. Partial correlations were computed between pupil achievement on these two measures and teacher use of each of the 12 behaviors covered in the protocol modules. Pupil scholastic ability, parent's occupation and teacher coverage of the unit's content were partialled out. The teachers' use of defining, voice modulation, paraphrasing and cueing was significantly related to pupil performance on both achievement measures. Teachers' use of opening review and terminal structure was related to one achievement measure. Observers also rated the participating teachers on ten high-inference characteristics such as enthusiasm. None of the partial correlations between these characteristics and pupil achievement was significant.