Author Question: Explain how the complexity of classroom teaching and learning affects research and efforts to apply ... (Read 117 times)

DyllonKazuo · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Explain how the complexity of classroom teaching and learning affects research and efforts to apply that research.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain why it is important for researchers to focus on only a few aspects of a problem at one time rather than to examine several aspects of a problem within the framework of a single study.

What will be an ideal response?

makaylafy · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

As David Berliner has argued, schools and classrooms differ from each other in a number of ways, including quality and quantity of personnel, teaching methods, budget, leadership, and community support. In addition, cognitive and effective outcomes of schooling are affected by complex interactions among such factors as student characteristics, teacher characteristics, curriculum materials, socioeconomic status of the community, and peer influences. The result of all this complexity is that teaching methods and programs that work the same way for a broad sample of teachers and students in different school districts are few and far between.

Answer to Question 2

Behavior is complex and generally has myriad causes. By examining only one or two aspects of behavior at a time under controlled conditions, the researcher can tease apart these causal factors.