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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

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.

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