What Classroom Observation Protocol are you?

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Discover Your Classroom Observation Protocol

Are you ready to explore the best classroom observation protocol tailored to your specific needs? This quiz will guide you through a series of questions to help you identify the most suitable observation strategy based on your goals, focus area, and preferred data collection methods.

With just nine questions, you'll uncover:

Your desired observational focus
The type of data you're interested in collecting
The educational level and actors involved

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Do you want to describe or evaluate the activity that you're observing?

Describe; ideal for projects curious about practice trends.

Evaluate; great for projects commenting on teaching quality.

Do you want to know more about a specific teaching pedagogy?

Not really, I'm interested in everything.

Yes, I'm looking for a very specific pedagogical strategy.

I want to observe:

My pedagogy isn't here.

Student Enagagement Behaviours (Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive)

Reform-based Teaching Strategies

Peer Instruction

How People Learn (HPL) Framework

Engineering Design

UTEACH Teaching Strategies

Teacher Discourse Moves (Dialogical Strategies)

Are you looking for qualitative or quantitative data collection?

Qualitative (e.g. I want to provide general comments and suggestions.)

Quantitative (e.g. I want to aggregate and compare data across instructors and courses.)

Protocols are designed to reflect activities in for different educational levels. Which makes sense for your observation?

K-12

Higher Education

I could probably make either work.

Which actors do you plan to observe?

Only Instructors

Only Teaching Assistants

Only Students

I'm going to observe a mix of actors.

Who will be performing the observations?

Peers will be observing peers, so the protocol should require very little training.

A researcher (or research team) will be performing the observations, so training is expected.

A combination of peers and researchers; aiming for something in the middle regarding protocol training requirements.

Do you want to track tools use during teaching?

Yes, tracking tools (e.g. technology) use is important to my observation.

No, I'm really only interested in tracking the human actors in the classroom.

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