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ERIC Number: EJ1425082
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jun
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0731-1745
EISSN: EISSN-1745-3992
What Mathematics Content Do Teachers Teach? Optimizing Measurement of Opportunities to Learn in the Classroom
Jiahui Zhang; William H. Schmidt
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, v43 n2 p40-54 2024
Measuring opportunities to learn (OTL) is crucial for evaluating education quality and equity, but obtaining accurate and comprehensive OTL data at a large scale remains challenging. We attempt to address this issue by investigating measurement concerns in data collection and sampling. With the primary goal of estimating group-level OTLs for large populations of classrooms and the secondary goal of estimating classroom-level OTLs, we propose forming a teacher panel and using an online log-type survey to collect content and time data on sampled days throughout the school year. We compared various sampling schemes in a simulation study with real daily log data from 66 fourth-grade math teachers. The findings from this study indicate that sampling 1 day per week or 1 day every other week provided accurate group-level estimates, while sampling 1 day per week yielded satisfactory classroom-level estimates. The proposed approach aids in effectively monitoring large-scale classroom OTL.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2191/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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