Exploring the Role of Language in Physics Teachers’ Everyday Assessment Practice

Feser, Markus Sebastian; Höttecke, Dietmar

doi:10.1080/1046560x.2021.1890926

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“…Namibia is located in southwestern Africa, has a population of about 2.6 million people, and is a multilingual country with 27 living languages (Ethnologue, 2023). The sole official language of Namibia is English (Republic of Namibia, 2014)although English is the first language of only 3.4% of its population (Namibia Statistics Agency, 2011).…”

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A minority language as language of instruction in the science classroom: A case study of a science teacher teaching at a German-speaking school in Namibia

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Haagen-Schützenhöfer

2023

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed

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Previous studies on the challenges teachers face when teaching science in German, as well as their corresponding coping strategies, feature a significant blind spot because—to our knowledge—they have only been conducted in regions, where German is the majority language. To address this blind spot, the present case study explores the perspectives of a science teacher on the role of German as language of instruction in a context in which German is a minority language. To this end, we conducted a narrative interview with a science teacher at a German-speaking school in Namibia and analyzed it qualitative-reconstructively. Our data analysis revealed that two meta-themes, which we labeled “teaching while navigating a monolingual norm” and “teaching while handling shortages,” pattern the key challenges and coping strategies of our interviewed teacher when she is teaching science in German language. The implications of this finding are outlined at the end of this paper.

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A minority language as language of instruction in the science classroom: A case study of a science teacher teaching at a German-speaking school in Namibia

Feser,

Haagen-Schützenhöfer

2023

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed

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“…In this paper we contribute to this body of work by describing how we adjusted assessment items to be within algebra-based students' zone of proximal development in graphical contexts, and offer a reflection on what kinds of resources about rates of change we think may be accessible to this population for instructors to build on. (II) Language we use in assessment can be filtering students for the wrong reasons [8][9][10][11]. Here we describe two key lessons we learned from translating the GERQN into Flemish as part of a larger project and on on-going collaboration with the researchers at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven).…”

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Assessing physics quantitative literacy in algebra-based physics: lessons learned

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McCarty²,

Brahmia³

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2022 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings

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Physics quantitative literacy (PQL)-applying familiar mathematics in novel ways in the context of physicsis ubiquitous across physics classrooms. The Physics Inventory for Quantitative Literacy, or PIQL, is a recently published reasoning inventory that can be used to assess PQL from calculus-based introductory physics through upper division courses (White Brahmia et al. 2021). There remains a need, however, for assessment of quantitative reasoning at the algebra-based level which includes not only algebra-based college courses but also pre-college physics courses. We present recent work adapting the PIQL to an algebra-based context towards developing the GERQN-the Generalized Equation-based Reasoning inventory for Quantities and Negativity. We report lessons learned from our efforts to adapt items from the calculus-based PIQL to the algebra-based GERQN, and provide examples of how items were revised to be within students proximal zone. We also report on our experience translating the GERQN into Flemish as part of a larger, on-going research project, and what we learned about language accessibility for native and non-native English speakers alike for developing assessment items, curricular materials, and when speaking with students.

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Exploring the Role of Language in Physics Teachers’ Everyday Assessment Practice

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A minority language as language of instruction in the science classroom: A case study of a science teacher teaching at a German-speaking school in Namibia

A minority language as language of instruction in the science classroom: A case study of a science teacher teaching at a German-speaking school in Namibia

Assessing physics quantitative literacy in algebra-based physics: lessons learned

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