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Record W2914313213 · doi:10.18806/tesl.v35i2.1288

Evaluating the Effectiveness and Functionality of Professional Learning Communities in Adult ESL Programs

2018· article· en· W2914313213 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueTESL Canada Journal · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProfessional developmentPsychologyProfessional learning communityReading (process)PedagogyFocus groupMedical educationSociologyMedicinePolitical science

Abstract

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In this article, we describe and evaluate a research utilization initiative designed to bridge the teaching English as a second language (TESL) research-practice gap by fostering the formation of and supporting professional learning communities (PLCs) in adult ESL instructional contexts. We review literature on teachers’ professional reading, learning, and development. We use Guskey’s (2014) professional learning evaluation framework and Hord’s (2009) six critical dimensions of PLCs to assess the effectiveness and functionality of PLCs in nine adult ESL programs. Five years of data collection included focus group interviews, professional learning community discussions, monthly online surveys, and a final follow-up survey. Data were analyzed in relation to (a) the five levels in Guskey’s framework: participants’ reactions, participants’ learning, organization support and change, participants’ use of new knowledge and skills, and student learning outcomes; and (b) the functionality of the PLCs. Results indicate that researcher supported PLCs can be effective in assisting teachers to address their professional development needs and goals. However, the interest and enjoyment experienced by participating in the PLCs, and ultimately the sustainability of the PLCs, also depend on the groups’ social and professional capital. We provide suggestions for future research and for the creation and maintenance of PLCs in TESL. Dans cet article, nous décrivons et évaluons une initiative de recours à la recherche conçue pour faire le pont entre la recherche et la pratique dans l’enseignement de l’anglais langue seconde (TESL) en favorisant la formation et le soutien des communautés d’apprentissage professionnelles (CAP) dans des contextes d’enseignement de l’anglais langue seconde (ESL) aux adultes. Nous étudions la documentation sur les habitudes de lecture, l’apprentissage et le perfectionnement des enseignants. Nous utilisons le modèle d’évaluation de la formation continue de Guskey (2014) et les six dimensions critiques des CAP afin d’évaluer l’efficacité et la fonctionnalité des CAP de Hord (2009) dans neuf programmes d’enseignement de l’anglais langue seconde aux adultes. Recueillies sur une période de cinq ans, les données de l’étude proviennent d’entrevues réalisées au sein de groupes de discussion, de discussions au sein de CAP, de sondages mensuels en ligne et d’un sondage de suivi fi nal. Les données ont été analysées en relation avec (a) les cinq niveaux du modèle de Guskey (2014): la réaction des participants, l’apprentissage des enseignants, le soutien organisationnel face au changement, l’utilisation par les enseignants des nouvelles connaissances et habiletés et les résultats au niveau des élèves; et (b) la fonctionnalité des CAP. Les résultats indiquent que les CAP appuyées par des chercheurs peuvent aider effi cacement les enseignants à subvenir à leurs besoins et à aĴ eindre leurs objectifs en matière de perfectionnement professionnel. Il faut toutefois signaler que l’intérêt et l’appréciation des participants d’une CAP et, en bout de ligne, la durabilité d’une CAP dépendent également du capital social et professionnel du groupe. Nous faisons des suggestions pour de futures recherches ainsi que pour la création et le maintien de CAP dans le domaine de l’enseignement de l’anglais langue seconde.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.507
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.256 · 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