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Identifying exemplary science teachers through their students' perceptions of the assessment process

- Waldrip, Bruce, Fisher, Darrell, Dorman, Jeffrey

  • Authors: Waldrip, Bruce , Fisher, Darrell , Dorman, Jeffrey
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Research in Science and Technology Education Vol. 27, no. 1 (2009), p. 117-129
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  • Description: This paper reports on part of a large-scale study aimed at examining students’ perceptions of assessment. This paper will report on a study utilising mixed methodology in 150 Australian middle school classrooms. The purpose of the study described in this paper was to use the Students’ Perceptions of Assessment Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (SPAQ) to identify and describe exemplary science teachers. With a sample of over 3000 science students, the reliability of the SPAQ scales ranged from 0.62 to 0.82. The exemplary teachers were identified as those whose students’ perceptions were more than one standard deviation above the mean on three of the five scales of Congruence with planned learning, Transparency, Authenticity, Student consultation, and Diversity. The construct validity of the SPAQ to identify these exemplary teachers was confirmed through interviews with students and these views are reported in the article.

Changing primary students' perceptions of teacher interpersonal behaviours in science

- Waldrip, Bruce, Reene, Paula, Fisher, Darrell, Dorman, Jeffrey

  • Authors: Waldrip, Bruce , Reene, Paula , Fisher, Darrell , Dorman, Jeffrey
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Research in Science Education Vol. 38, no. 2 (2008), p. 213-235
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  • Description: The paper reports on part of a large-scale study aimed at examining students’ perceptions of teacher–student interactions. This paper will report on a study utilising mixed methodology in 12 Queensland primary classrooms. After the students’ perceptions were established, the teachers, through a consultative process, developed strategies to change the students’ perceptions of their classroom over a 3 month period. The paper reports on what strategies these teachers utilised and what changes in students’ perceptions resulted. The classroom teachers were interviewed about the change in students’ perceptions, what changes they had sought to promote in their classrooms, and what they felt had been achieved in their classrooms. The study found that students were able to articulate what changes the teacher had implemented, what their reaction was to these changes and their perception of the classroom environment as a result of these implemented strategies.

'Broadening horizons' : raising youth aspirations through a Gippsland school/industry/university partnership

- Plunkett, Margaret, Dyson, Michael

  • Authors: Plunkett, Margaret , Dyson, Michael
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations 6 p. 93-114
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  • Description: The International Labour Organization characterises being young in today's labour market as 'not easy'. In parts of Gippsland, a regional area of Victoria Australia, it is certainly not easy because youth unemployment reached 21.7% in 2016, the second highest in the state. Within this regional-global context, research into youth aspirations is often bounded by a deficit-focused framework with little emphasis on contextual positives. This chapter, however, reports on a 5-year project of an innovative regional school-industry partnership. 'Broadening Horizons' provides project-based workplace learning units where partners immerse students in 'realworld problems' such as road safety and public transport. The Gippsland regional office of the Department of Education sought a formal evaluation of the project from the local university, at the time Monash Gippsland, but in 2014, we became part of FederationUniversity Australia. This chapter outlines findings from a mixedmethodology evaluation of the project's pilot stage and points out a number of important factors. These include a broader understanding of youth career support, youth aspirations and education/industry partnerships in a regional context, and the importance of involving parents. One school, in particular, achieved very successful parental involvement, which had a major impact on the learning and engagement of the students involved.We conclude that projects like this help to illustrate the complexities associated with youth aspirations in a regional context and may help to challenge associated, unsubstantiated stereotypes. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved.
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