TY - JOUR
T1 - A tool for assessing engagement in instructional contexts
AU - Mastergeorge, Ann M.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Engaging activities are enriching ones. To determine whether an instructional activity is engaging, it helps to divide an activity into separate domains, and to rate the activity for the degree to which it fosters engagement in each of the domains. A tool made up of six domains of instructional practice is described in this article, based on the literature of teacher-child interactions in classrooms. The tool's domains are: the challenge of the activity, level of implementation, quality of instructional discussion, quality of instructional feedback, and quality of procedural and substantive involvement. The tool is offered as a way to evaluate and enhance engagement of children in classroom interactions as well as of adults in clinical interactions. After examining samples of engagement taken from children in classroom activities according to this construct, the observational tool is then applied to the analysis of a therapy session involving an adult with aphasia.
AB - Engaging activities are enriching ones. To determine whether an instructional activity is engaging, it helps to divide an activity into separate domains, and to rate the activity for the degree to which it fosters engagement in each of the domains. A tool made up of six domains of instructional practice is described in this article, based on the literature of teacher-child interactions in classrooms. The tool's domains are: the challenge of the activity, level of implementation, quality of instructional discussion, quality of instructional feedback, and quality of procedural and substantive involvement. The tool is offered as a way to evaluate and enhance engagement of children in classroom interactions as well as of adults in clinical interactions. After examining samples of engagement taken from children in classroom activities according to this construct, the observational tool is then applied to the analysis of a therapy session involving an adult with aphasia.
KW - Collaborative problem solving
KW - Engagement
KW - Instructional discourse
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77149147115&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1055/s-0028-1104534
DO - 10.1055/s-0028-1104534
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77149147115
VL - 213
SP - 48
EP - 56
JO - Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie
JF - Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie
SN - 0948-2393
IS - 1
ER -