Protocol Materials as Related to Teacher Performance and Pupil Achievement

Abstract

AbstractAn experimental group of 25 in service intermediate grade teachers were trained using four protocol modules which covered 12 specific teaching behaviors. Their performance before and after training was observed and compared with the performance of 15 comparable control group teachers. The experimental group teachers made significant gains on all 12 teaching behaviors and significantly exceeded the control group teachers on four of these. There was some evidence of contamination that probably accounts for pins made by the control group. At the end of the study, all teachers taught a 4-hour content unit in their own classrooms and their pupils were given two achievement measures that focused on the content unit. Partial correlations were computed between pupil achievement on these two measures and teacher use of each of the 12 behaviors covered in the protocol modules. Pupil scholastic ability, parent's occupation and teacher coverage of the unit's content were partialled out. The teachers' use of d...