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Failure to Fail in a Final Pre-service Teaching Practicum

2015· article· en· W2196340813 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Patricia Danyluk, Florence Luhanga, Yovita Gwekwerere, Leigh MacEwan, Sylvie Larocque

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTeacher Education and Leadership Studies
Canadian institutionsLaurentian UniversityUniversity of SudburyUniversity of ReginaUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPracticumBachelorPsychologyTeacher educationStudent teachingPedagogyInternshipSupervisorBetrayalMedical educationStudent teacherPolitical scienceMedicineSocial psychology

Abstract

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This article presents a Canadian perspective on the issue of failure to fail in Bachelor of Education programs. The issue of failure to fail in Bachelor of Education programs is one that had not been explored in any great detail. What literature does exist focuses on the strain that a teacher experiences when s/he mentors a student teacher (Siebert, Clark, Kilbridge, & Peterson, 2006) and the wide variety of situations that can result in failure (Sudzina & Knowles, 1992). This study examines whether the issue of failure to fail in final pre-service practica exist and, if so, why? Twelve interviews were conducted at a mid-sized Canadian university in Ontario with university supervisors and associate teachers on the topic of teacher candidate failure during the final teaching practicum. All participants had experience with teacher candidates struggling during practicum. Faculty commented on their supervision of student teachers in Ontario, other provinces in Canada, and the United States. Results indicate that both university supervisors and associate teachers find the decision to fail a student teacher difficult, taking an emotional toll on both the supervisor and the student. University faculty report the decision to fail results in additional work for the faculty responsible; however, failure to fail an underperforming student teacher could diminish the reputation of professional programs. Associate teachers feel a sense of betrayal when their recommendations to fail an under-performing student are not followed by the university. These findings have implications for improving the quality of field experiences and support for students, associate teachers, and faculty in Bachelor of Education programs. Cet article présente une perspective canadienne sur le fait qu’il n’y a pas d’échecs dans les programmes de baccalauréat en éducation. Cette absence d’échecs dans les programmes de baccalauréat en éducation n’a jamais été explorée en détails. La documentation qui existe se concentre sur la pression ressentie par les enseignants quand ils dirigent les étudiants à l’enseignement (Siebert, Clark, Kilbridge & Peterson, 2006) et sur la grande variété de situations qui peuvent mener à l’échec (Sudzina & Knowles, 1992). Cette étude examine la question de savoir si l’absence d’échecs lors des derniers stages pratiques d’initiation existe et si oui, pourquoi. Douze entrevues ont été menées dans une université canadienne de taille moyenne en Ontario avec des superviseurs universitaires et des enseignants associés sur la question de l’échec des étudiants à l’enseignement lors du dernier stage pratique d’enseignement. Tous les participants ont eu l’occasion de constater des difficultés éprouvées par les candidats à l’enseignement durant le stage pratique. Les professeurs ont fait des commentaires sur leur supervision d’étudiants à l’enseignement en Ontario, dans d’autres provinces du Canada et aux États-Unis. Les résultats indiquent qu’à la fois les superviseurs universitaires et les enseignants associés trouvent que la décision de faire échouer un étudiant à l’enseignement est difficile et qu’elle peut entraîner des conséquences émotionnelles à la fois pour le superviseur et pour l’étudiant. Les professeurs d’université rapportent que la décision de faire échouer un candidat crée du travail supplémentaire pour le professeur responsable; toutefois, le fait de ne pas faire échouer un étudiant dont le travail ne donne pas satisfaction pourrait faire baisser la réputation des programmes professionnels. Les enseignants associés se sentent trahis quand leurs recommandations de faire échouer un étudiant dont le travail n’est pas satisfaisant ne sont pas prises en compte par l’université. Ces résultats ont des implications qui pourraient améliorer la qualité du travail sur le terrain et le soutien apporté aux étudiants, aux enseignants associés et aux professeurs qui enseignent dans des programmes de baccalauréat en éducation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.362
Threshold uncertainty score0.719

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0170.012
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.228
GPT teacher head0.423
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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