Teacher Strategies and Student Engagement in Low-Income Area Schools. Research and Development Memorandum No. 105 [microform] / Robert D. Hess and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5253494
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Hess, Robert D
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED087768
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973
- 105 p.
- Summary:
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This study identifies effective teacher strategies associated with student engagement in natural classrooms. "Student engagement" is defined as observable interest and/or attention to a learning task prescribed by the teacher. Twenty-four teachers and their students in the third and fourth grades in nine elementary schools in low-income areas in the San Francisco Bay area were observed on 10 occasions during the 1971-72 school year. Student engagement, teacher strategy use, and the relationship between them were analyzed. The major findings were that a) there were large differences in level and mode (receptive or expressive) of engagement among classrooms and among observation rounds; b) the frequency of strategy use varied among teachers and for individual teachers from one observation round to another; c) the mean percentage of students engaged rose significantly during the year; d) there were no significant differences in level or type of engagement by sex or ethnicity of students, or by subject matter; e) level of engagement differed significantly by size of instructional group, with lower levels for large groups than for small or dyadic groups; and f) level of engagement in the classroom was not clearly related to the use of particular strategies. The findings point to the importance of molar instructional and environmental settings as factors in engagement. They suggest a modification of the conceptual orientation of the study. (Author)
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- Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: OEC-6-10-078.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Stanford Univ., CA. Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching
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