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Teachers’ Interpretation of Observed (Non)verbal Student Cues to Monitor Student Progress and Enhance Differentiated Mathematics Instructions
Kamphuis, Sophie (2024) Teachers’ Interpretation of Observed (Non)verbal Student Cues to Monitor Student Progress and Enhance Differentiated Mathematics Instructions.
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| Abstract: | Teachers in primary education have to effectively educate many different types of students. To do this, they have to use differentiated instructions considering appropriate instructional decisions matching the students’ needs. In order to respond to these needs, teachers make differential choices prior to their lesson. However, teachers also appear to extract information from cues they observe within students while performing their instruction and consequently make instructional decisions on the fly. This study attempts to examine teachers’ viewing behaviour during instructions while observing these cues. In an exploratory study, teachers were asked to wear eye tracking glasses during a differentiated mathematical instruction. In analysation of the eye tracking data, Areas of Interest were assigned to nonverbal or verbal cues and presented to the participants during a stimulating recall interview with the purpose of examining to what extent these cues seemed to be important for certain instructional decisions. The study results showed teachers focused on observing cues of mainly students experiencing difficulty regarding the subject matter and with known difficulties in their characteristics. Within observing these cues, most of the teachers fixated on nonverbal student cues, specifically at student work. In contrast to most of the teachers, one of the teachers seemed to be focused mainly on observing verbal cues. This result suggests the degree of knowledge about students could influence the type of cue on which teachers fixate during instructions. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 81 education, teaching |
| Programme: | Educational Science and Technology MSc (60023) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/99947 |
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