AERA Online Paper Repository Viewer

Continuing Paper Access to AERA Annual Meetings
and other Conventions

  
InformationContents
Owner: Joshua Morris
Owner Email: joshuamorris@gmail.com
Paper Title: ICAP Theory in Professional Development: Helping Teachers Conceptualize Active Learning
Session Title: Learning Environments Poster Session
Paper Type: Poster Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/20/2020
Presentation Location: Online
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes/Development, Professional Development
Methodology: Quantitative
Author(s): Joshua Morris, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh; Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University
Unit: Division C - Learning and Instruction
Abstract: We investigated the efficacy of professional development in changing science teachers’ questioning to include more questions that require deeper student responses. The PD was based on ICAP theory which proposes a framework for identifying cognitive engagement based on student behaviors. Teachers were provided with guidelines for designing questions that fostered greater levels of cognitive engagement. In particular, teachers were asked to decrease the number of questions requiring the recitation of presented facts. Compared to a previous cohort of students receiving the same content, students of teachers who received the PD showed stronger learning gains. A mixed model accounting for the nested nature of the data, suggests a positive relationship between constructive questions and student learning.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/1576571