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Truth Matters: Teaching Young Students To Search For The Most Reasonable Answer, Alina Reznitskaya, Ian A.G. Wilkinson Dec 2017

Truth Matters: Teaching Young Students To Search For The Most Reasonable Answer, Alina Reznitskaya, Ian A.G. Wilkinson

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Learning how to formulate, comprehend, and evaluate arguments is an essential part of helping students develop the ability to make better, more reasonable judgments. The Common Core identified argumentation as a fundamental life skill that is broadly important for the literate person. According to the authors, having students engage in an inquiry dialogue oriented toward finding the most reasonable answer is key to developing the skills of argumentation. Inquiry dialogue starts with a contestable, big question that is relevant to student interests and addresses a central issue raised in a text. Such questions invite students to take part in a …


Teachers' Epistemic Cognition In The Context Of Dialogic Practice: A Question Of Calibration?, Ivar Bråten, Krista R. Muis, Alina Reznitskaya Oct 2017

Teachers' Epistemic Cognition In The Context Of Dialogic Practice: A Question Of Calibration?, Ivar Bråten, Krista R. Muis, Alina Reznitskaya

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

In this article, we argue that teachers' epistemic cognition, in particular their thinking about epistemic aims and reliable processes for achieving those aims, may impact students' understanding of complex, controversial issues. This is because teachers' epistemic cognition may facilitate or constrain their implementation of instruction aiming to engage students in reasoned argumentation through classroom dialogue. We also suggest that teachers may need to reflect on their own epistemic cognition in the context of dialogue-based instruction in order to calibrate it with the aim of deep understanding and the reliable process of reasoned argumentation, which underlie such instruction. Based on our …


Teachers' Epistemic Cognition In Classroom Assessment, Helenrose Fives, Nicole Barnes, Michelle M. Buehl, Julia Mascadri, Nathan Ziegler Oct 2017

Teachers' Epistemic Cognition In Classroom Assessment, Helenrose Fives, Nicole Barnes, Michelle M. Buehl, Julia Mascadri, Nathan Ziegler

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Epistemic cognition represents aspects of teachers' thinking focused on issues related to knowledge, which may have particular relevance for classroom assessment practices given that teachers must discern what their students know and then use this information to inform instruction. We present a model of epistemic cognition in teaching with a focus on teachers' classroom assessment practices. We argue that teachers' epistemic cognition is inherently more complex than current models developed for learners. Further, we suggest that teachers' epistemic cognition can be supported through the development of reflexivity as an epistemic virtue and that the 3R-EC framework for reflexivity represents one …


Anarchism, Schooling, And Democratic Sensibility, David Kennedy Sep 2017

Anarchism, Schooling, And Democratic Sensibility, David Kennedy

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

This paper seeks to address the question of schooling for democracy by, first, identifying at least one form of social character, dependent, after Marcuse, on the historical emergence of a “new sensibility.” It then explores one pedagogical thread related to the emergence of this form of subjectivity over the course of the last two centuries in the west, and traces its influence in the educational counter-tradition associated with philosophical anarchism, which is based on principles of dialogue and social reconstruction as opposed to monologue and reproduction. The idea of a dialogical school has been made possible by a historical shift …


Beyond The Lab: An Examination Of Key Factors Influencing Interaction With ‘Real’ And Museum-Based Art, Matthew Pelowski, M. Forster, Pablo Tinio, Maria Scholl, Helmut Leder Aug 2017

Beyond The Lab: An Examination Of Key Factors Influencing Interaction With ‘Real’ And Museum-Based Art, Matthew Pelowski, M. Forster, Pablo Tinio, Maria Scholl, Helmut Leder

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

The authors present a comprehensive review and theoretical discussion of factors that could influence our interaction with museum-based art. Art is an important stimulus that reveals core insights about human behavior and thought. Art perception is in fact often considered one of the few uniquely human phenomena whereby we process multiple types of information, experience myriad emotions, make evaluations, and where these elements not only occur but dynamically combine. Art viewing often occurs in museums, which-in conjunction with "real" artworks-may contribute greatly to experience. However, to date, psychological aesthetics studies have only begun to consider in-museum examinations, focusing instead on …


Do You See What I See? An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Experience In The Laboratory And Museum, Eva Specker, Pablo Tinio, Michiel Van Elk Aug 2017

Do You See What I See? An Investigation Of The Aesthetic Experience In The Laboratory And Museum, Eva Specker, Pablo Tinio, Michiel Van Elk

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Two studies examined people's aesthetic experiences of art in the laboratory and the museum. The theoretical framework guiding the research was based on the Mirror Model of Art (Tinio, 2013), which proposes that the process of artistic creation and artistic reception mirror each other. Study 1 used a think-aloud protocol to assess people's natural and spontaneous reactions while looking at art. Study 2 examined whether presenting information about an artwork in a certain order (lower-order to higherorder information or higher-order to lower-order information) enhances aspects of the aesthetic experience and retention of information about art. Studies 1 and 2 were …


U.S. Teachers' Conceptions Of The Purposes Of Assessment, Nicole Barnes, Helenrose Fives, Charity M. Dacey Jul 2017

U.S. Teachers' Conceptions Of The Purposes Of Assessment, Nicole Barnes, Helenrose Fives, Charity M. Dacey

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

Teachers' conceptions about assessment influence their classroom assessment practices. In this investigation, we examined 179 K-12 teachers' conceptions of the purposes of assessment from a person-centered perspective. An exploratory factor analysis of teachers' responses to the Conceptions of Assessment Instrument yielded a three-factor model: assessment as valid for accountability, improves teaching and learning, and as irrelevant. Next, we used cluster analysis to identify belief profiles of teacher groups: Cluster-1: Moderate, Cluster-2: Irrelevant, Cluster-3: Teaching and Learning. Within and across cluster comparisons revealed significant differences indicating that these are distinct profiles: teachers can, and do, hold multiple beliefs about assessment simultaneously.


An Archetypal Phenomenology Of Skholé, David Kennedy Jun 2017

An Archetypal Phenomenology Of Skholé, David Kennedy

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

In this essay David Kennedy argues that children represent one vanguard of an emergent shift in Western subjectivity, and that adult–child dialogue, especially in the context of schooling, is a key locus for the epistemological change that implies. Following Herbert Marcuse’s invocation of a “new sensibility,” Kennedy argues that the evolutionary phenomenon of neoteny — the long formative period of human childhood and the paedomorphic character of humans across the life cycle — makes of the adult–child collective of school a primary site for the reconstruction of belief. After exploring child–adult dialogue more broadly as a form of dialectical interaction …


Insiders Doing Par With Youth In Their Schools: Negotiating Professional Boundaries And Healing Justice, Kathryn Herr May 2017

Insiders Doing Par With Youth In Their Schools: Negotiating Professional Boundaries And Healing Justice, Kathryn Herr

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

In this essay, I explore my experiences as a practitioner researcher collaborating with my students on a participatory action research project aimed at institutional change. I take up two areas: blurring the boundaries of professionalism in working toward authentic collaborations with students, and secondly, incorporating perspectives of ‘healing justice’ into school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR). I first provide a framework by delineating the emancipatory aims of YPAR and how these may be at odds with much of the research teachers/practitioners currently conduct in their school sites. While ultimately acknowledging the risks in taking up emancipatory change efforts as insiders, …


Time Spent Viewing Art And Reading Labels, Lisa F. Smith, Jeffrey K. Smith, Pablo Tinio Feb 2017

Time Spent Viewing Art And Reading Labels, Lisa F. Smith, Jeffrey K. Smith, Pablo Tinio

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

A study conducted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 15 years ago found that the mean amount of time visitors spent looking at great works of art was 27.2 s, with the median at 17.0 s and the mode at 10.0 s (J. K. Smith & Smith, 2001). The study presented here aimed to revisit that study at The Art Institute of Chicago and expand on it by including a larger sample size, a larger number of artworks from more-diverse genres and time periods, and separate observations for time spent looking at the artworks and reading the accompanying labels. As …


Toward A More Dialogic Pedagogy: Changing Teachers’ Beliefs And Practices Through Professional Development In Language Arts Classrooms, Ian A.G. Wilkinson, Alina Reznitskaya, Kristin Bourdage, Joseph Oyler, Monica Glina, Robert Drewry, Min Young Kim, Kathryn Nelson Jan 2017

Toward A More Dialogic Pedagogy: Changing Teachers’ Beliefs And Practices Through Professional Development In Language Arts Classrooms, Ian A.G. Wilkinson, Alina Reznitskaya, Kristin Bourdage, Joseph Oyler, Monica Glina, Robert Drewry, Min Young Kim, Kathryn Nelson

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

In this paper, we report findings from the second year of a three-year research and professional development program designed to help elementary school teachers engage in dialogic teaching to support the development of students’ argument literacy. We define argument literacy as the ability to comprehend and formulate arguments through speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The professional development program was focused on promoting teachers’ use of a specific type of talk called ‘inquiry dialogue’ to achieve the goal of developing students’ argument literacy. We used a single-group pretest-posttest design to assess the impact of the professional development on teachers’ epistemological beliefs …


"Integrated Out Of Existence": African American Debates Over School Integration Versus Separation At The Bordentown School In New Jersey, 1886-1955, Zoe Burkholder Jan 2017

"Integrated Out Of Existence": African American Debates Over School Integration Versus Separation At The Bordentown School In New Jersey, 1886-1955, Zoe Burkholder

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

The Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth in New Jersey allows us to consider the history of black education from a new perspective: that of northern black educational activists in the first half of the twentieth century. While we know a great deal about how black southerners made school integration central to the civil rights movement in the decades following Brown, as well as later battles for school integration in northern cities like New York and Boston, we know less about how black educational activists in the North advocated for educational equality before Brown. This article expands …


Informed And Uninformed Naïve Assessment Constructors’ Strategies For Item Selection, Helenrose Fives, Nicole Barnes Jan 2017

Informed And Uninformed Naïve Assessment Constructors’ Strategies For Item Selection, Helenrose Fives, Nicole Barnes

Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works

We present a descriptive analysis of 53 naïve assessment constructors’ explanations for selecting test items to include on a summative assessment. We randomly assigned participants to an informed and uninformed condition (i.e., informed participants read an article describing a Table of Specifications). Through recursive thematic analyses of participants’ explanations, we identified 14 distinct strategies that coalesced into three families of strategies: Alignment, Item Evaluation, and Affective Evaluation. We describe the nature of the strategies and the degree to which participants used strategies with frequency and effect size analysis. Results can inform teacher education on assessment construction through explicit instruction in …