Increasing Teacher Preparedness Through Effective Student Teaching
Category: Teacher and Leader Development
Instrument Overview
Expert Notes AvailableView expert commentary on strengths and cautions for this instrument
Strengths
Helps reveal both the knowledge teachers can explain and the knowledge they use spontaneously while teaching.
Provides detailed insights into how teachers interpret and respond to student thinking.
Can inform teacher education and professional development by highlighting areas of strong and weak PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge)
Cautions
Focused on high-school physics; may need adaptation for other grades or subjects.
Requires teachers to watch and reflect on videos, which takes time and comfort with video-based self-analysis.
Interpretation relies on skilled interviewers; different researchers might infer slightly different things from teacher responses.
The Video-Based Interview Protocol for Teacher PCK in Science (Alonzo & Kim, 2015) uses video-based interviews to understand what teachers know about teaching science (their Pedagogical Content Knowledge, or PCK) and how they use that knowledge in real classrooms. Teachers watch short clips of their own teaching or examples of student thinking, then talk through what they notice and how they would respond. This helps make visible the often “tacit” knowledge that guides their decisions in the moment.
Organization
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
Approx. 1 hour per interview
Access and Use
Price
Not indicated
Contact
Alicia C. Alonzo:
Email: alonzo@msu.edu
Jiwon Kim:
Email: Jiwon_Kim1@brown.edu
Open Access
No
Use in Research
None indicated
