Is Your Classroom “Safe” for Thinking? Introducing an Observation Instrument to Assess Classroom Climate and Teacher Questioning Strategies

Teacher Personality and Classroom Climate

DESCRIPTORSBIBLIOGRAPHIES, *INTERACTION, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MALES, *PERSONALITY STUDIES, *PERSONALITY THEORIES, PHYSICS TEACHERS, QUESTIONNAIRES, SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, *STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, TABLES (DATA), TEACHER ATTITUDES, *TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS, MINNESOTA TEACHER ATTITUDE INVENTORY (MTAI), CLASSROOM CLIMATE QUESTIONNAIRE (CCQ), EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE (EPPS), ALLPORT ...

Introducing Literature to an EFL Classroom:

This study documents a teacher-researcher’s presentations of 24 literary works to a class of 28 Taiwanese EFL senior high school students during a fourteen-week experiment, and reports on those students’ perceptions of the texts introduced and their attitudes towards literature in general. In preparing literary texts, the teacher explored the notion of computer assisted literature teaching (CAL...

Virtual Substitute Teacher: Introducing the Concept of a Classroom Proxy

We describe the concept and a first prototype of a digital replacement for teacher in class. While earlier work on intelligent pedagogical agents has focused on the development of a generic idealized teacher agent, our focus lies on modeling the identity of a specific teacher, called a “classroom proxy.” We evaluate the concept of a classroom proxy in an exploratory case study and discuss the b...

Correction for The Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS): A New Instrument to Characterize STEM Classroom Practices

Is the ozone hole over your classroom?

First year university science students are surveyed about their understanding of the ozone layer, ozone depletion and the effect of ozone depletion on Australia. Although students seem to understand the basic function of the ozone layer, over 65% of students incorrectly believe that the ozone hole is over Australia, and over 90% of students incorrectly believe that the ozone hole is present dur...