2Explain – ‘Who Can Explain This to Me?’ An Empirical Study on Teaching and Learning with Instructional Explanations
Based on the combination of two studies, we want to investigate how profession-specific and profession-unspecific pre-service teacher characteristics translate into primary school students’ natural sciences learning from explanation videos that the pre-service teachers have produced in the context of a workshop on instructional explanations. Additionally, more specific research questions will be examined within the scope of each of the two studies.
In Study 1, we want to investigate how pre-service teachers’ knowledge of effective instructional explanations can be best developed. For this purpose, we want to test whether learning from worked-out examples or from problem-based learning is more effective in terms of improving knowledge of instructional explanations. Based on their knowledge gained from the workshops, the pre-service teachers eventually produce their own explanation videos.
In Study 2, these videos are presented to primary school students. We hypothesize that low-achieving students in particular will benefit from high-quality explanation videos that make good use of instructional explanations.
Selected Publication:
Baier, F., Decker, A. T., Voss, T., Kleickmann, T., Klusmann, U., & Kunter, M. (2019). What makes a good teacher? The relative importance of mathematics teachers’ cognitive ability, personality, knowledge, beliefs, and motivation for instructional quality. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 89(4), 767-786. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12256
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09/2020 – 12/2021
