Trening av samtaleferdigheter i lærerutdanningen (CAiTE). Forskningsbasert rollespill som metode for å styrke vurderingspraksiser i skolen

This project aims to develop, evaluate and implement a new research-based instruction method for training feedback skills in teacher education at the University College of Southeast Norway (USN). The research group comprises three researchers from USN, two academic entrepreneurs and partners from Loughborough University (UK), three partner schools in the district, praxis schools, and an advisory board of the most experienced researchers in the field. The proposed project includes a research stage and an intervention stage. The former will entail analysis of video-recorded teacher-student interactions to identify feedback practices that support learning. The intervention stage will include translation of the research findings into role-play training workshops for teacher education, using the Conversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM). CARM workshops involve viewing and/or listening to anonymised audio or video clips and transcripts synchronously and line by line, enabling participants to live through actual practice episodes without knowing what will happen next. The participants will then role-play what they might do next to handle the situation. The workshops will be delivered prior to the teacher students’ second praxis period, and we will evaluate whether these workshops have the intended effect on teacher students’ learning outcomes and self-efficacy. We will evaluate our intervention with questionnaires addressing student teachers’ perceived self-efficacy, insight and confidence related to the delivery of student feedback. The first questionnaire will be based on The Norwegian Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale, a standardised questionnaire used to measure teachers’ self-efficacy and for which a strong factorial invariance and test-retest reliability has been demonstrated. The proposed project will implement the CARM method with the close involvement of school teachers, teacher students, teacher educators and researchers from the educational sector.