Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Research in Education
Year: 2024
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Facilitating Collaborative Reflection with Trainee Teachers via Video Viewing: The creation and implementation of the Noticing Observation Framework to Facilitate Peer Support (NOF-PS)
Scott. J. Threlfall
ABSTRACT:
Students are capable of rich and sophisticated responses to, and understandings gained from their work when in collaboration, and self-assessment can be enhanced further with the addition of peer-assessment. Moreover, for peer-groups to work effectively, scholars have argued that they will need guidance about how to behave in those settings. Consequently, this may allow students to take more ownership of their own learning, more likely to challenge each other’s judgments, and thereby sparking discussion and debate. This presentation considers part of a wider study and showcases an original contribution to knowledge, the creation and implementation of the Noticing Observation Framework to Facilitate Peer Support (NOF-PS). The investigation adopted a mixed methods methodology, with a multiple case study design, with 9 participants (pre-service trainees FES 14+), with an equal QUAL/QUANT methods mix. The NOF-PS assisted participants to make assessments of their teaching practice via video viewing in research triads. Each group member made assessments of their own, and each other’s teaching practice, based upon the Education and Training Foundation’s (ETF) Professional Standards; a script was applied in these settings providing group members with guidance as to how to facilitate a dynamic that fostered positivity, objectivity, and criticality. The implementation of the NOF-PS had a clear impact upon how trainees’ perceived the practice of themselves and of their peers. Trainees’ collective teaching practice significantly (p<.001) improved over time, with an 18% increase of how trainees viewed their practice following peer discussions. Implications for the research and wider impact are then considered.
keywords: Further Education; Peer-assessment; PGCE; Teacher Training; Triads