For our analysis of the assessments and survey, we only used data from students who consented; for the classroom observations, observers did not know student identity and the IRB waived informed consent.
During the Fall term of 2012, 16 SESs, who are highly trained and experienced classroom observers, used this evolving protocol to observe a variety of courses in singles, pairs, or trios across most of the departments in the UBC Faculty of Science (including the disciplines of biology, computer science, earth sciences, mathematics, physics, and statistics).
For the year, classroom observers rated her just short of effective.
Experienced classroom observers obtained a 90% coding accuracy with the instrument during initial training sessions.
Bei-jen had a very different teaching style from Tracey, a difference that was recognized by both of the two teachers themselves, all the classroom observers and me.
Authors worked as a development team (collaborative) but also interacted with a larger project team that included material reviewers, classroom observers, assessment experts, and leadership and evaluation personnel.
Classroom observers could detect this distributed practice when instructors explicitly cue students to use their prior knowledge (P3).
These observation protocols use a series of codes to characterize instructor and/or student behaviors in the classroom; observers indicate how often each behavior occurs during a class period (Hora et al., 2013; West et al., 2013).
We developed a classroom observation protocol and trained one observer from each district in its use.
Newer studies recognizing that tics may often be undiagnosed and hard to detect use direct classroom observation and multiple informants (parent, teacher, and trained observers), and therefore record more cases than older studies relying on referrals.
To minimize any effects of changing expectations for teacher attendance at professional development events over the course of the many years of data collection, observers evaluated the comparison teachers after all BrainU classroom observations were completed.
