Instructional Coaching Relationships: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the recent adoption of the literacy/instructional coaching model in many Ontario school boards, there is a need to further examine the coaching relationship between the coach and coachee and how it creates a space conducive for professional learning to occur. This study adopted a qualitative approach using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to examine the lived experience of instructional coaching and the instructional coaching relationship in the secondary school setting from a strengths-based perspective. Three instructional coaches and three corresponding coachees in a southwestern Ontario school board participated in semi-structured interviews. The notions of trust, growth, and power and resistance were the super-ordinate themes that emerged and were deeply embedded in the sociocultural context of the school. Instructional coaching holds great potential as a professional development model if the relational dynamics are thoroughly understood, acknowledged and addressed and the socio-cultural environment provides the space for professional learning to occur.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".