ERIC Number: EJ1439742
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Publication Date: 2024-Aug
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
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Comparing Competency-Oriented Student Activities between Expert and Novice Teachers in China: Insights from an Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA)
Chunxia Qi; Haili Liang; Siyu Zuo; Ruisi Li
Education and Information Technologies, v29 n12 p15375-15402 2024
Competency-oriented student activities are an important means of enabling teachers to move from teaching fundamental knowledge to developing students' subject competencies. To examine mathematics teacher novice--expert differences in organizing competency-oriented activities, this study collected data from three consecutive lessons taught by an expert and a novice teacher respectively. Epistemic network analysis (ENA) was used to identify the co-occurrence and structure of students' activities in each lesson. Results of the coding-and-counting method show statistically significant differences in the types of students' activities related to mathematics competency across the lessons taught by the expert teacher, but not in those taught by the novice teacher. By recognizing the temporal relationships between different activities, the ENA of the consecutive lessons reveals that the expert teacher facilitated better mathematical content and lesson connectedness by establishing connections between competency-oriented activities following the sequence of "understanding-applying-transferring and innovating" (Wang et al., 2022). In contrast, the novice teacher organized more mathematics activities on "understanding" and "applying," without building connections via "transferring and innovating" across three lessons. The results of the ENA are also supported by qualitative analysis. Finally, the implications, limitations, and possibilities for future research are discussed.
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Network Analysis, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Beginning Teachers, Lesson Plans, Experienced Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Correlation, Learning Activities
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