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Children, Mathematics, and Videotape: Using Multimodal Analysis to Bring Bodies into Early Childhood Assessment Interviews
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Parks, Amy Noelle; Schmeichel, Mardi – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Despite the increased use of video for data collection, most research using assessment interviews in early childhood education relies solely upon the analysis of linguistic data, ignoring children's bodies. This trend is particularly troubling in studies of marginalized children because transcripts limited to language can make it difficult to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, African American Students, Preschool Children, Rural Schools
Teachers' Sensitivity to the Reliability of Information in Making Pedagogical Decisions
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Shavelson, Richard J.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1977
One hundred sixty-four subjects (elementary school teachers and graduate students) were told different stories about a fictitious student which varied in reliability and amount of information. Results indicated that the subjects considered the reliability of the information and revised their decisions accordingly. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Dimensions of Children's Classroom Behavior, as Perceived by Teachers
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Solomon, Daniel; Kendall, Arthur J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1977
Teachers rated the behavior of 205 3rd- and 4th-grade children on a 30-item scale. Correlations of factor scores with measures of academic achievement, creativity, inquiry skill, and various orientations, motives, attitudes, and values were investigated. Correlations suggest that teachers can validly discriminate between perseverant and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment