Methodological lessons on measuring quality teaching in Southern contexts, with a focus on India and Pakistan
Methodological lessons on measuring quality teaching in Southern contexts, with a focus on India and Pakistan
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10.1177/1745499919828929
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
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2.1
通讯作者：
Whitaker, Lydia
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作者：
Aslam, Monazza;Malik, Rabea;Whitaker, Lydia
量化教学质量对学生学习的影响，并了解教师的特点或做法可能会提高学生的成绩，是所有国家迫切的研究问题。经验证据也需要有具体的背景，因为不同的教育制度可能有不同的促进因素和阻碍良好教学的因素。现有的证据，主要来自美国，表明一些强有力的研究设计，使研究人员能够模拟教学对学生成绩的影响。然而，在资源更加有限的情况下，这些模式的操作是具有挑战性的。在本文中，我们描述了我们试图模拟教师和他们的做法对学生成绩的影响，使用本研究所产生的定量数据（家庭和学校调查与教师调查，并试图评估教师的知识）。我们描述的挑战时，试图在印度和巴基斯坦的背景下，实施这种方法和方法所需的调整。我们反思我们方法的优点和缺点。我们注意到，现有的文献往往提供相对较少的描述，具体的研究设计和工具，用于模拟教师的质量，因此提供了一个局部图片的方法考虑。在本文中，我们详细而坦率地介绍了开发可行的研究设计以及我们遇到的挑战。
Quantifying the impact of teaching quality on pupil learning, and understanding what teacher characteristics or practices are likely to improve student achievement, are pressing research questions in all countries. Empirical evidence also needs to be context specific since different education systems are likely to have different facilitators and barriers to good teaching. Existing evidence, largely from the US, suggests a number of strong research designs that enable researchers to model the impact of teaching on pupil achievement. However, operationalising these models in more resource-constrained contexts is challenging. In this paper we describe our attempt to model the impact of teachers and their practices on pupil achievement using the quantitative data generated for this research (household and school surveys with a teacher survey and an attempt to assess teacher knowledge). We describe the challenges when trying to implement this approach in the Indian and Pakistan context and the methodological adaptions needed. We reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of our approach. We note that existing literature tends to provide relatively minimal descriptions of the specific research design and instruments used to model teacher quality and hence provides a partial picture of methodological considerations. In this paper we contribute a detailed and frank account of developing a workable research design and the challenges we encountered.