Indicators of Understanding: What TAs Listen for in Student Responses

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written by Renee Michelle Goertzen, Rachel E. Scherr, and Andrew Elby

Before we can develop effective, research-based professional development programs for graduate student physics TAs, we must first identify their current classroom practices and why they engage in these practices. Framing, a theoretical framework developed in sociology and linguistics, provides an analytical toolbox for examining the expectations that guide the actions and attention of individuals while teaching. We use framing to develop fine-grained analyses of two episodes of TAs teaching tutorials. Despite the differences in their behaviors, the two TAs are in a sense both doing the same thing; they organize their interactions with students around "searching for indicators" that the students understand the targeted ideas.

Physics Education Research Conference 2008
Part of the PER Conference series
Edmonton, Canada: July 23-24, 2008
Volume 1064, Pages 119-122

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Education Foundations - Teacher Characteristics Education Practices - Professional Development	- Graduate/Professional - Professional Development - Lower Undergraduate	- Reference Material = Research study

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DOI:: 10.1063/1.3021231
NSF Numbers:: 0529482; 01.40.Fk; 01.40.G-; 01.40.gb; 01.50.F-; 01.40.J-
Keywords:: PERC 2008, Physics Education Research, educational aids, educational courses, framing, graduate students, laboratory techniques, research and development management, student experiments, teaching assistants, tutorials
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Goertzen, R., Scherr, R., & Elby, A. (2008, July 23-24). Indicators of Understanding: What TAs Listen for in Student Responses. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada. Retrieved April 20, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8838&DocID=1169

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Goertzen, R, R. Scherr, and A. Elby. "Indicators of Understanding: What TAs Listen for in Student Responses." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2008, Edmonton, Canada, July 23-24, 2008. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8838&DocID=1169 (accessed 20 April 2024).

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Goertzen, Renee Michelle, Rachel Scherr, and Andrew Elby. "Indicators of Understanding: What TAs Listen for in Student Responses." Physics Education Research Conference 2008. Edmonton, Canada: 2008. 119-122 Vol. 1064 of PER Conference. 20 Apr. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=8838&DocID=1169>.

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