Teachers' use of focus questions in german biology classrooms. A video-based naturalistic study.

Autor/inn/en	Nawani, Jigna; Kotzebue, Lena; Rixius, Julia; Graml, Michael; Neuhaus, Birgit J.
Titel	Teachers' use of focus questions in german biology classrooms. A video-based naturalistic study.
Quelle	In: International journal of science and mathematics education, 16 (2018) 8, S. 1431-1451Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Zusatzinformation	Forschungsdaten, Studiendetails und Erhebungsinstrumente
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1571-0068; 1573-1774
DOI	10.1007/s10763-017-9837-z
Schlagwörter	Allgemeinbildung; Fragebogen; Fragebogenerhebung; Sekundäranalyse; Unterrichtsbeobachtung; Motivationsforschung; Schuljahr 09; Lehrer; Lehrerbildung; Schüler; Fachwissen; Wissenstest; Interesse; Lehr-Lern-Forschung; Lehr-Lern-Prozess; Wissenserwerb; Wissensstruktur; Videoanalyse; Biologie; Biologieunterricht; Videotechnik; Aufgabe
Abstract	This study investigated the effects of teachers' use of focus questions on students' knowledge structures and classroom teaching-learning process by re-analyzing selected data from a quasi-experimental pre-post video study (Wadouh, 2007). Focus questions are content-related anchoring questions highlighting the key content taught in individual lessons (Forbes & Davis, 2010). In Wadouh' study, students answered a knowledge test before and after the lesson on "blood and the circulatory system" and one lesson per teacher was videotaped to investigate teaching practices in grade 9 biology classrooms. Students also completed a post-unit concept mapping exercise and a motivation-interest questionnaire. In this study, 30 lesson videos selected from 47 were re-analyzed for teachers' use of focus questions - no focus questions, non-specific or simple focus questions, and specific and challenging focus questions. Individual students' scores in the concept mapping exercise were aggregated as students' topic-related knowledge structure. Multilevel analyses revealed a significant positive effect of teachers' use of specific and challenging focus questions on students' topic-related knowledge structure. Furthermore, a comparative case analysis of the classroom teaching-learning process was conducted in four lessons where teachers used specific and challenging focus questions in two of the lessons and non-specific or simple focus questions in the other two lessons. The findings indicate that specific and challenging focus questions anchored lessons on students' co-construction of scientific explanations by activating their pre-instructional ideas, whereas non-specific or simple focus questions anchored lessons on their accumulation of canonical scientific knowledge. This study's limitations and implications for teacher education reform are discussed. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2022/2