RUME 14 (Volume 1)
2011
Portland, Oregon
WHAT DO WE SEE? REAL TIME ASSESSMENT OF MIDDLE AND SECONDARY TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
Page: 143
The article reviews efforts to develop an observation protocol to assess the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) that middle and high school teachers may develop and demonstrate in the classroom over time as part of their participation in a master’s program for secondary mathematics teachers. We observed each of 16 teachers in real time using the instrument, before involvement in the project and again during the second semester of participation. Aspects of the protocol measure four critical components of PCK including curricular content, discourse, anticipatory, and implementation knowledge. We present a quantitative analysis of the observations and discuss various challenges faced in the instrument development and its relation to similar protocols used by others previously.