Interaction II puts the focus on the behavior of teachers in the classroom: How do they distribute their attention? How do they appraise their students? By making them aware of typical behavioral patterns, the findings obtained through eye tracking allow teachers in training to reflect on their own diagnostic behavior.
Overview
Duration: 2017 – 2023 Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Subsidy: 287 070 Euro Principal Investigators: Prof. Tina Seidel, Prof. Doris Holzberger, Prof. Kathleen Stürmer
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Being able to assess the students' learning conditions such as motivation, interest or cognitive abilities allows teachers to better adapt their instruction to the individual requirements of the students. At the same time, teachers' interaction in the classroom seems to be mainly focused on students they consider to be high achieving. Therefore, they often do not recognise students who under- or overestimate themselves.
The project "Interaction II" therefore focuses on the diagnostic competence of teachers in formation and experienced teachers, i.e. their ability to assess students well. How well and how do they identify strong, weak, uninterested, underestimating and overestimating students? And how do they distribute their attention in the classroom? In the course of a laboratory and a field study, so-called eye-tracking comes into play, which makes it possible to follow the teachers' eye movements.
The aim is to study different groups of students and to identify typical patterns in the distribution of teachers' attention. If the interactions of teachers show systematic differences, the findings can be incorporated into the training of teachers, so that they reflect on their own diagnostic behaviour and sensitise themselves in advance to certain behavioural patterns.
Further information on the project can be found here.
