Observation manuals as lenses to classroom teaching: Pitfalls and possibilities

What is it about?

This is an article about how observation manuals can be used in educational research to increase knowledge aggregation on instructional quality. We compare and discuss the most important different observation manuals - and we look at both possibilities and drawbacks of such manuals.

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Why is it important?

It is important to look at what the potentials of using the same manuals across studies are, but also to take a good look at the costs. We discuss how all manuals come with some learning ideology about teachers and instruction, and how this affects the measurments of instructional quality.