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Research Handbook on Classroom Observation
This comprehensive Handbook offers cutting-edge insights into classroom observation systems for teacher evaluation and professional development, with an emphasis on both applied and discovery-oriented inquiry.
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This comprehensive Handbook offers cutting-edge insights into classroom observation systems for teacher evaluation and professional development, with an emphasis on both applied and discovery-oriented inquiry.
Providing a synthesis of research on classroom observation, from the process-product era of the 1970s to today’s automated systems, an international array of expert authors examine the history, key themes, and movements within classroom observation research. They detail disciplinary perspectives and approaches, address core methodological questions and review the role of classroom observation in teacher evaluation, as well as educational policy and practice. Chapters illustrate new frontiers in classroom observation, including technology-enabled methods such as the use of artificial intelligence to support dialogic teaching and provide performance feedback for teachers. The Handbook presents a pluralistic vision of classroom observation and its purpose, with balanced consideration of multiple value dimensions in education.
The Research Handbook on Classroom Observation is a vital reference for educational researchers and teacher educators, as well as teachers themselves. Education policymakers and consultants will also find this Handbook beneficial.
Providing a synthesis of research on classroom observation, from the process-product era of the 1970s to today’s automated systems, an international array of expert authors examine the history, key themes, and movements within classroom observation research. They detail disciplinary perspectives and approaches, address core methodological questions and review the role of classroom observation in teacher evaluation, as well as educational policy and practice. Chapters illustrate new frontiers in classroom observation, including technology-enabled methods such as the use of artificial intelligence to support dialogic teaching and provide performance feedback for teachers. The Handbook presents a pluralistic vision of classroom observation and its purpose, with balanced consideration of multiple value dimensions in education.
The Research Handbook on Classroom Observation is a vital reference for educational researchers and teacher educators, as well as teachers themselves. Education policymakers and consultants will also find this Handbook beneficial.
Critical Acclaim
‘This Handbook is urgently needed. Efforts to improve teaching and learning are incomplete without attention to what’s actually happening in classrooms. Meanwhile, developments in technology have opened new vistas for classroom-based research. Scholars and instructional leaders alike will find this Handbook to be an essential resource for understanding the challenge and opportunities of classroom observations.’
– Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation, USA
‘This Handbook presents the most piercing, in-depth examination of classroom observation methodologies to date, complete with a diversity of perspectives at times astutely critical but collectively enlightening as to their unique affordances and vast potential. Sean Kelly has assembled an impressively varied yet representative array of research programs leveraging classroom observation for maximum insights into teaching practices and student experiences essential for professional improvement, including those revealing the bright future of observational research as augmented by new technologies like AI. Along the way, he does not hold back his own experienced observations and refined analysis of key features and emerging issues, skillfully synthesizing this essential collection of works for researchers and educators alike.’
– David J. Shernoff, Rutgers University, USA
– Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation, USA
‘This Handbook presents the most piercing, in-depth examination of classroom observation methodologies to date, complete with a diversity of perspectives at times astutely critical but collectively enlightening as to their unique affordances and vast potential. Sean Kelly has assembled an impressively varied yet representative array of research programs leveraging classroom observation for maximum insights into teaching practices and student experiences essential for professional improvement, including those revealing the bright future of observational research as augmented by new technologies like AI. Along the way, he does not hold back his own experienced observations and refined analysis of key features and emerging issues, skillfully synthesizing this essential collection of works for researchers and educators alike.’
– David J. Shernoff, Rutgers University, USA
