Title

Minding the Gap: Mentor and Pre-service Teachers’ Ability Perceptions of Content Area Literacy Instruction

Author(s)

Treavor Bogard, University of DaytonFollow
Mary-Kate Sableski, University of DaytonFollow
Jackie Marshall Arnold, University of DaytonFollow
Connie L. Bowman, University of DaytonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2017

Publication Source

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Abstract

This mixed method study compared how student teachers rated their ability in implementing components of content area literacy compared to their clinical educators’ perceptions of the student teachers’ actual performance. The researchers collaborated with K-12 clinical educators to develop a scaled survey to rate level of skill in four components of content literacy instruction. 112 clinical educators (CEs) and 183 student teachers (STs) representing five teacher licensure programs completed the survey. A two-way multivariate analysis of variance measured the effect of Role (CE and ST) and Teacher Licensure Program on ability perception. Results indicated that Role and Program each significantly affected ratings of the four content literacy component skills measured, but the effect of Role did not significantly differ based on Program. Participants’ written explanations of their ability ratings revealed how their mental models of content literacy accounted for differences in ability perception by Role. Implications are provided for enhancing pre-service teachers’ perceptual and qualitative awareness of the practices that underlie highly effective content-area literacy instruction.

Inclusive pages

44-66

ISBN/ISSN

1527-9316

Document Version

Published Version

Comments

This document has been made available for download in accordance with the publisher's policy on open access. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v17i4.21885

Permission documentation on file.

Copyright

Copyright © 2017, The Author(s)

Publisher

Indiana University

Volume

17

Issue

4

Peer Reviewed

yes

eCommons Citation

Bogard, Treavor; Sableski, Mary-Kate; Arnold, Jackie Marshall; and Bowman, Connie L., "Minding the Gap: Mentor and Pre-service Teachers’ Ability Perceptions of Content Area Literacy Instruction" (2017). Teacher Education Faculty Publications. 26.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/edt_fac_pub/26