Article Review: Turner & Meyer, 2000
Turner, J.C. & Meyer, D.K. (2000). Studying and understanding the instructional contexts of classrooms: Using our past to forge our future. Educational Psychologist, 35(2), 69-85.
They mainly focused on academic instruction and motivation to learn. Similar to Flanders who they cite. Discuss different methods used to study context: observation, interview, discourse analysis.
The study of classroom context requires investigating more than one variable at a time, qualitative inductive component, attempt to answer How and Why questions, that researcher be present in classroom. They propose more multimethod approaches: methodologies, designs and descriptions. They desire more context in theory-building. Need for explicit definitions of the parts of classroom being investigated.
They mainly focused on academic instruction and motivation to learn. Similar to Flanders who they cite. Discuss different methods used to study context: observation, interview, discourse analysis.
The study of classroom context requires investigating more than one variable at a time, qualitative inductive component, attempt to answer How and Why questions, that researcher be present in classroom. They propose more multimethod approaches: methodologies, designs and descriptions. They desire more context in theory-building. Need for explicit definitions of the parts of classroom being investigated.
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