Exploring the Mind | Responses to Misbehavior in the Classroom
When
Thursday October 8, 2020: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
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AADL.TV
Description
Join Dr. Kai Cortina of the University of Michigan's Department of Psychology for a presentation on his research into the way teachers respond to misbehavior using findings of a mobile eye-tracking study in regular classrooms.
There is a lot of evidence suggesting that student demographics are a factor in everyday classroom interactions. However, the claims are often conflicting. For example, some assume that girls get less attention which means their contributions as well as individual needs are more often overlooked. Others claim that boys tend to misbehave because teachers focus more on high achieving girls in the class. Some researchers claim that minority students are more scrutinized by teachers and hence their misbehavior is more likely to be noticed and reprimanded. With mobile eye tracking, we recorded how often 42 teachers focused on each individual student during a regular classroom period. These data were matched with regular video recording which we used to identify student misbehavior during class. While boys and girls displayed different profiles in the kind of classroom norm violations, the teacher responses were consistently based on the misbehavior type and not gender. We will demonstrate how mobile eye-tracking has great potential to investigate controversial issues in classroom research without being dependent on - potentially biased - observers. Overall, our findings support the idea of pedagogical "withitness" as a skill of successful teaching as it was popularized by Kounin 50 years ago.
Kai S. Cortina is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the Free University Berlin, Germany. His major research areas include learning motivation in school, improving teaching practice, and the long-term effects of schooling over the life course. As an expert in quantitative methods, he was repeatedly involved in international studies on school achievement and student learning. The current study is a collaborative effort with Prof. Kevin Miller and his graduate student, Blake Ebright.
This program is in partnership with the University of Michigan Department of Psychology.
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