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Teacher Decision Making

The undertaken study compares elements of teacher decision- making in reading instruction for two groups of elementary school teachers: (1) teachers living and working in Granada, Spain; and (2) teachers living and working in Bay City, Michigan. In order to add context to this research, this chapter of the study examines the general literature on teacher decision-making. This literature is divided into two broad categories consisting of:

a) empirical (research) articles on teacher decision-making, and b) theoretical articles on teacher decision-making.

Teacher Decision-Making: Empirical Studies

McNair and Bruce (1979) examined teacher decision-making for a sample of ten elementary school teachers. In particular, the study was focused on determining those concerns which teachers held regarding their instructional efforts. Methods included videotaping teachers at six different periods of time during the school year, having teachers review these videotapes and recall what they were thinking about at the time the tape was made. Regarding areas of concern, McNair and Bruce (1979) reported that findings showed that:

In order of significance, the concerns...were: content of the lesson, procedures, time, and materials. Concern with pupil learning, attitudes and behavior accounted for nearly forty per-cent of the total, and concern with learning tasks, facts, and ideas for nearly thirty per-cent. Concerns were relatively stable across time, and individual differences between teachers were relatively small (p.1)

It should be noted here that teacher concerns are a very important element of decision-making because decisions tend to often be made based on these concerns.

The methods used in the McNair and Bruce (1979) study (teachers watching videotapes of themselves teaching and being asked to recall what they were thinking when the tape was made) is one that is often used in research on teacher decision making (Bennet...

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