Pre-service teachers’ experience with writing lesson outcomes at a South African university: an emerging reflective awareness
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Abstract
Although lesson planning is widely regarded as a crucial skill that pre-service teachers must master, writing clear and measurable lesson outcomes remains a persistent challenge. This study investigates the experiences of 150 second-year Bachelor of Education students at a South African university as they engaged in writing lesson outcomes and reflecting on their practice. In this qualitative phenomenological study, data were collected through a formal assessment that required students to design and reflect on their lesson plans. Thematic analysis revealed four key themes: lack of clarity, ambiguous verb selection, challenges in curriculum implementation, and difficulties in applying knowledge of Bloom’s taxonomy and SMART criteria to practice. A significant finding is that, despite these challenges, participants demonstrated a growing awareness of the importance of reflection in writing lesson outcomes. They expressed the need for a more scaffolded approach and practical opportunities to translate theory into practice. Integrating iterative feedback, peer review, and contextualised exemplars could empower pre-service teachers to design authentic, engaging, and practical lesson outcomes as a foundational step in lesson planning.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it