Exploring teachers’ inquiry-based attitude     

Marie-Jeanne Meijer  Femke Geijsel  Marinka Kuijpers  Fer Boei  Emmy Vrieling 《Teaching in Higher Education》2016,21(1):64-78

Having a well-founded insight into the characteristics of teachers inquiry-based attitude (IA) supports operationalising IA as a learning goal in teacher education (TE). The aim of this study is to refine the notion of IA from an ill-defined global concept into something with reliable and valid characteristics. To do so, data were gathered on three different occasions amongst three different cohorts of teachers who participated in a master's programme at a Dutch university for applied sciences. This process of exploration and reconceptualisation was performed in collaboration with teacher educators. The results indicate that, statistically, IA has an internal reflective dimension and an external knowledge-sourcing dimension. Both dimensions can also statistically be differentiated from the personality traits openness to ideas, openness to change and epistemic curiosity. The implications of these findings for TE, plus recommendations for future research, are addressed.  相似文献   

Adapting mentoring to individual differences in novice teacher learning: the mentor’s viewpoint     

Gisbert van Ginkel  Helma Oolbekkink  Paulien C. Meijer  Nico Verloop 《Teachers and Teaching》2016,22(2):198-218

Being adaptive to the individual novice teacher is considered a condition for effective teacher mentoring. The aims of this study are therefore to explore (1) mentoring activities through which mentors intend to adapt to the individual novice teacher and (2) characteristics of adaptive mentors. Information was collected through on-site, post-mentoring conversation interviews with 18 mentors holding different mentoring conceptions, from different programs for Initial Teacher Education in the Netherlands. Four adaptive mentoring activities were identified: (1) aligning mutual expectations about the mentoring process, (2) attuning to the novices’ emotional state, (3) adapting the mentoring conversation to match the reflective capacity of the novice teacher, and (4) building tasks from simple to complex relative to the novices’ competence level. Adaptive mentors were (1) more likely to mention activities intended to support construction of personal practical knowledge and (2) less likely to mention activities intended to create a favourable context for novice teacher learning. Suggestions for using findings to enhance mentor adaptiveness are discussed.  相似文献   

Understanding teacher learning in secondary education: The relations of teacher activities to changed beliefs about teaching and learning   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jacobiene A. Meirink  Paulien C. Meijer  Nico Verloop  Theo C.M. Bergen 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2009

In this study, relations between learning activities of teachers and changes in their beliefs were examined. Thirty-four teachers in Dutch secondary education were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding their beliefs about teaching and learning on two occasions. They were also asked to report on learning activities that they undertook. Teachers who had changed their beliefs in a direction congruent with the aims of recent educational reforms often reported experimentation with colleagues' teaching methods. Teachers who changed their beliefs in a direction that was not congruent with the reform often reported experimentation with alternative methods due to discontent with the effectiveness of current methods.  相似文献   

Peer regulation of teenage sexual identities   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Deborah Chambers  Estella Tincknell  Joost Van Loon 《Gender and education》2004,16(3):397-415

This article examines the teenage policing of heterosexuality in schools and contributes to debates about teenage sexual moralities and heterosexual male agency. It reports on a qualitative study in England of the collective sexual values of 12‐ to 13‐year‐olds and 14‐ to 15‐year‐olds. Focus group interviews indicated that pupils developed a consensual sexual morality through collusive sex talk. Homophobic and misogynistic views and verbal abuse were found to be key instruments of teenage peer regulation of sexual identities crossing class and ethnic boundaries. We found that the ‘official’ discourse of sex education did not relate to teenage lives. Anxieties about heterosexual masculinity and girls' sexual agency were conveyed by some boys through verbal sexual harassment—a form of behaviour regarded as intimidating yet normal. While white and Asian boys were more conservative in their views about marriage than girls, white and Asian girls struggled to resist heterosexual masculine power through career aspirations, by questioning marriage and being informed about sexual issues.  相似文献   

Understanding the complexity of teacher reflection in action research     

Johan Luttenberg  Paulien Meijer 《Educational Action Research》2017,25(1):88-102

Reflection in action research is a complex matter, as is action research itself. In recent years, complexity science has regularly been called upon in order to more thoroughly understand the complexity of action research. The present article investigates the benefits that complexity science may yield for reflection in action research. This article begins by explicating the sense in which the complexity of reflection in action research involves the role of values and existential knowledge in education. The gap between theory and practice is also explored. On the basis of a number of common features of complex systems (heterogeneous, open, dynamic, non-linear, adaptive, and co-adaptive), the sense in which reflection can be regarded as a complex system is discussed. To this end, the features of complex systems are translated into features of reflection in action research, which, in turn, are illustrated with examples from recent publications on reflection in action research. The aim of this analysis is to make reflection in action research more understandable and manageable. In line with this, it is argued that room for insecurity and unpredictability, combined with an explicit consideration of reflection as a complex system, contributes to the use of complexity as a stimulus for new learning.  相似文献   

Types and frequencies of feedback interventions in classroom interaction in secondary education     

Lia Voerman  Paulien C. Meijer  Fred A.J. Korthagen  Robert Jan Simons 《Teaching and Teacher Education》2012

Contributing to the growing amount of literature on learning–enhancing feedback, this article attempts to distinguish between progress feedback and discrepancy feedback. Building on relevant literature drawn from psychology, we propose the use of a ratio of 3:1, positive:negative feedback. We analyzed contiguous 10 min blocks of classroom interactions from 78 teachers. Findings indicate that teachers seldom provide the types of feedback interventions identified as effective in enhancing learning in the course of typical classroom interactions. We examine potential explanations for this, discuss the consequences of this finding on teacher education and professional development, and offer several opportunities for future research.  相似文献   

Embedding Conceptual Innovation in Distance Education Platforms: Bottlenecks and Critical Success Factors     

Steven Utsi  Raf Canters  Joost Lowyck 《Educational Media International》2013,50(4):217-228

The Flexible Learning Environment eXperiment (FLEX) distance education project focuses on circus, fairground and bargee children. FLEX challenges the absence of face-to-face immediate feedback in learning. This article discusses the approach to embed didactical functions in the FLEX learning environment to meet constructivist didactical goals. FLEX is designed as a generic learning environment, suitable for different target groups. The article aims at an elucidation of constraints on a generic design due to the transition from design to development and actual implementation of a learning environment. Time pressures and technological constraints typically threaten didactical functions and, thus, innovation. As an example, the FLEX database is discussed. Shared values, ideas and key notions in a multidisciplinary context, and the follow-up of teacher training, are found to affect the actual implementation process. User training has to focus simultaneously upon how technology is used and why and when it is applied. FLEX moreover confirmed the relative robustness of innovative learning environments and the need for resources to back up unforeseen events. Finally, a summary of the article values strong pedagogical underpinnings, the actual use of the learning environment, and the interaction of the learner and the environment. L’Encadrement de l’Innovation Conceptuelle dans les Entreprises d’Education à Distance: Bouchons et

Facteurs de succès critiques. Le projet d'éducation à distance ayant recours à l'expérience de la flexibilité de l'environnement (FLEX) est concentrée sur les enfants du cirque, des foires et des péniches. Flex défie l'absence de feedback immédiat dans l'enseignement. Cet article discute de l'approche pour ancrer des fonctions didactiques dans l'environnement du Flex pour atteindre des buts didactiques constructifs. Flex est concu comme un environnement didactique générique convenant à des publics cibles différents. L'article cherche à élucider les contraintes s'excusant lors de l'élaboration d'un plan générique dues à la transition entre la planification et la mise en m uvre d'un environnement éducatif. La pression du temps et les contraintes technologiques et par la même innovation. A titre d'exemple on discute de la base de données Flex. Les valeurs partagées, les idées et les notions clé dans contexte multidisciplinaire paraissent affecter le processus de mise en m uvre. La formation de l'usager doit être contrée simultanément sur la facon dont la technologie est utilisée et pourquoi et quand il y est fait appel. De plus Flex a confirmé la robustesse relative d'environnements éducatifs innovants et le besoin pour les ressources éducatives de faire face à environnements imprévus. Finalement, un résumé de l'article met en valeur de forts étais pédagogiques, l'usage réel de l'environnement éducatif et l'interaction entre l'apprenant et l'environnement. Einbettung konzeptueller Innovation für den Fernunterricht: Engpässe und kritische Faktoren für den Erfolg. Das Flexible Learning Environment eXperiment (FLEX) des Fernunterricht-Projekts zielt auf Zirkus-, Ausstellerkinder und Kinder, die z.B. auf Frachtschiffen leben, ab. FLEX befasst sich mit dem Wegfall der bei Direktunterricht möglichen unmittelbaren Rückmeldungen beim Lernen. Dieser Artikel beschreibt den Versuch, didaktische Funktionen in die Lernumgebung einzubetten, um so konstruktivistische didaktische Ziele zu erreichen. FLEX wurde als generische Lernumgebung konzipiert, die bei unterschiedlichen Zielgruppen angewendet werden kann. Der Artikel möchte die Grenzen eines generischen Konzepts, die sich aus der Entwicklung vom Entwurf bis zu Fertigstellung und der eigentlichen Anwendung des “learning environments" ergeben, aufzeigen. Zeitdruck und technische Begrenzungen erschweren i.A. didaktische Möglichkeiten und somit Innovation. Als Beispiel dient die FLEX Datenbank. Gleiche Werte, Ideen und Schlüsselfunktionen innerhalb eines multidisziplinären Kontexts und die begleitende Lehrerfortbildung beeinflussen den Anwendungsprozess. Benutzertraining muss gleichzeitig sowohl auf die technischen Möglichkeiten als auch auf den Anwendungsmodus abzielen. FLEX hat die relative Robustheit einer innovativen Lernumgebung und die notwendige Unterstützung durch andere Mittel bei unvorhergesehenen Schwierigkeiten unterstrichen. Der Artikel folgert, dass ein starkes pädagogisches Fundament für die interaktive Nutzung der Lernumgebung und ihres Umfelds unerlässlich sind.  相似文献   

Master’s thesis projects: student perceptions of supervisor feedback     

Renske A.M. de Kleijn  M. Tim Mainhard  Paulien C. Meijer  Mieke Brekelmans  Albert Pilot 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2013,38(8):1012-1026

A growing body of research has investigated student perceptions of written feedback in higher education coursework, but few studies have considered feedback perceptions in one-on-one and face-to-face contexts such as master’s thesis projects. In this article, student perceptions of feedback are explored in the context of the supervision of master’s thesis projects, using review studies with respect to effective feedback in coursework situations. Online questionnaires were administered to collect data from three cohorts of master’s students who were either working on their thesis or had recently finished it (N?=?1016). The results of the study indicate that students perceive the focus of feedback in terms of a focus on task and self-regulation; they perceive the goal-relatedness of feedback in terms of feed up (goal-setting) and feed back-forward (how am I going and where to next?); and elaboration of feedback is perceived in terms of positive and negative feedback. Furthermore, students that perceive the feedback to be positive, and to provide information on how they are going and what next steps to take, are the most satisfied with their supervision and perceive they are learning most from their supervisor. The findings are discussed in relation to findings in coursework settings, and are explained using goal orientation theories.  相似文献   

The development of a questionnaire on metacognition for students in higher education     

Joost Meijer  Peter Sleegers  Marianne Elshout-Mohr  Maartje van Daalen-Kapteijns  Wil Meeus  Dirk Tempelaar 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(1):31-52

Interest in the role of metacognition has been steadily rising in most forms of education. This study focuses on the construction of a questionnaire for measuring metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation and metacognitive responsiveness among students in higher education and the subsequent process of testing to determine its validity.

Purpose

The aim of the study was to construct an original instrument for measuring features of metacognition, henceforth referred to as the Awareness of Independent Learning Inventory (AILI), and further to establish the similarities and differences between this model and existing instruments for measuring metacognition.

Sample

The AILI questionnaire was distributed to 1058 students in various types of Teacher Training Institutes in the Netherlands and Belgium. The abridged English version of the questionnaire was administered to another sample of 729 students reading Economics and Business Administration at the University of Maastricht in the south of the Netherlands.

Design and methods

The AILI instrument was constructed on the basis of a facet design along two dimensions: components of metacognition and topics of concern to students in higher education. The data gathered with the instrument was analyzed by means of a generalisability study and a decision study, respectively. The validity of the instrument was investigated by using confirmatory factor analysis.

Results

The generalisability study showed that the reliability of the instrument was satisfactory. The decision study revealed that the number of items included in the questionnaire could be reduced substantially by leaving out two components of one of the dimensions in the facet design, without losing too much generalisability. The validity study showed that there was a considerable level of congruity between parts of the AILI questionnaire and the relevant parts of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).

Conclusions

The AILI questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring metacognitive knowledge, regulation and responsiveness. It is suitable for use in the evaluation of the effects of interventions that purport to increase metacognitive knowledge, regulation and responsiveness of students in higher education.  相似文献   

Teacher characteristics and schoolfailure     

Meijer  C. J. W. 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1988,3(1):117-118

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