Research project Interaction in tune with students' needs – Tools for classroom observation
We study develop and test, in different phases, instruments to be used to assess and develop learning environments in kindergarten and primary school, up to grade six.
A self-assessment instrument is tested together with other tools for teachers and students. An instrument for classroom observations is developed and validated. There is an interest among teachers in tools to use in preventive special educational efforts at group and organizational level. These methods are asked for by professionals in student health teams, in order to develop the quality of inclusive learning environments.
Project description
The project develops a classroom observation instrument that can be used to support learners with special educational needs in inclusive settings, and to prevent students' learning difficulties and low engagement, through targeting the quality of interactions and the socio-emotional climate in the classroom.
The study's hypothesis is that the reforms introduced in the school system have changed the school's core values, putting more focus on management and organization than on children's development and well-being.
The project builds upon a theory-based model of social climate synthetizing a framework on values, basic needs and the characteristics of teacher-student relationships associated with responsiveness, trust, creativity and achievement.
The overarching aim is to engage teachers' leadership in shaping environments that are responsive to students' needs and interests and stimulate learning for all students, including students with special educational needs. The specific aims of the project are to address the model's content validity in establishing categories; to do a pilot testing of the classroom observation instrument, to evaluate its functioning; to test the psychometric properties of the observation instrument, and to develop research-practice collaboration models.
The project has a mixed-method approach and includes collegial evaluation, classroom observations, instrument development, and observations of students' learning potentials and strengths.
Project members
Project managers
Mara Westling Allodi
Professor
Members
Mara Westling Allodi
Professor
Noam Ringer
Universitetslektor
Carina Wikman
Universitetslektor
Hanna Ginner Hau
Ställföreträdande prefekt, docent
Laura Ferrer Wreder
Associate Professor
Publications
Social Climate and the Student in the Learning Environment
Advances in Assessment, Observation, and Coaching. Dissertiation, Stockholm University (in press). Wikman, C. (2023)
Evaluation of a Pilot School-Based Teacher-Coaching Intervention to Change the Social Climate in Sec
EARLI 2023 - Book of Abstracts, 171–171 Wikman, C., Westling Allodi, M., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2023)
Attention to the Whole Child Perspective
In 2022-Conference RCEN, 11-13 June, 2022. Presented at the Relation Centered Education Network (RCEN), 11-13 June, 2022, Online Wikman, C., Westling Allodi, M., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2022a)
Measuring the Social Climate in the Learning Environment
Differences Between Two Instruments. Presented at the ISEI International Society on Early Intervention Integrating Research and Practice in Early Childhood Intervention, 27-30 September, 2022, Chicago, USA. Wikman, C., Westling Allodi, M., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2022b)
Students’ well-being and perceptions of social climate measured with GAVIS
- a theory -based instrument. Presented at the European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP 2022), 29 June- 2 July, 2022, Reykjavík, Iceland. Westling Allodi, M., & Ringer, N. (2022)
Ledarskap, delaktighet och specialpedagogik - att skapa en bra arbetsmiljö som präglas av gemenskap
- att skapa en bra arbetsmiljö som präglas av gemenskap. In Ledarskap, sociala relationer och konflikthantering för lärare (pp. 339–369) Natur & Kultur Westling Allodi, M. (2021a)
Specialpedagogik - en personlig ingång
Specialpedagogik för lärare (pp. 12–32) Natur & Kultur. Westling Allodi, M. (2021b)
Specialpedagogik - en personlig ingång. In Specialpedagogik för lärare
Natur & Kultur Westling Allodi, M. (Ed.). (2021c)
Stöd och särskilt stöd i den svenska skolan och internationellt
- en nyckelfaktor för elevers välbefinnande och lärande. In Specialpedagogik för lärare (pp. 213–231) Natur & Kultur Westling Allodi, M. (2021d)
Välfungerande övergångar i utbildningen
- en nyckelfaktor för elevers välbefinnande och lärande. In Specialpedagogik för lärare (pp. 213–231) Natur & Kultur Westling Allodi, M., & Lundqvist, J. (2021)
Teacher self-assessment of the learning environment with GAVIS
Abstract. Presented at the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA), Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2020 Wikman, C., Westling Allodi, M., & Ferrer-Wreder, L. (2020)