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| Autoren | Nawani, Jigna; Kotzebue, Lena; Rixius, Julia; Graml, Michael; Neuhaus, Birgit J. |
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| Titel | Teachers' use of focus questions in german biology classrooms. A video-based naturalistic study. |
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| URL | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-017-9837-z |
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| Erscheinungsjahr | 2018, Jg. 16, H. 8 |
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| Seitenzahl | S. 1431-1451 |
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| Zeitschrift | International journal of science and mathematics education |
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| ISSN | 1571-0068; 1573-1774 |
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| Dokumenttyp | Zeitschriftenaufsatz; online; gedruckt |
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| Beigaben | Literaturangaben |
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| Sprache | englisch |
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| Forschungsschwerpunkt | Promotionsförderung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen - Empirische Fundierung der Fachdidaktiken |
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| Schlagwörter | Allgemeinbildung; Fragebogen; Fragebogenerhebung; Sekundäranalyse; Unterrichtsbeobachtung; Motivationsforschung; Schuljahr 09; Lehrer; Lehrerbildung; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Schüler; Fachwissen; Wissenstest; Interesse; Lehr-Lern-Forschung; Lehr-Lern-Prozess; Wissenserwerb; Wissensstruktur; Videoanalyse; Biologie; Biologieunterricht; Videotechnik; Aufgabe |
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| 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.). |
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| Projekt | Qualität von Kommunikation im Unterrichtsgespräch als Kriterium der Unterrichtsqualität im Biologieunterricht
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| Förderkennzeichen | 01JG1074 |
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