Introducing Pre-service STEM Teachers to the Classroom Assessment Scoring System-Secondary (CLASS-S) Using Video-based Assignments
Abstract: Extant research has explored how video-based assignments can be integrated into pre-service teacher programs to improve teacher candidates’ pedagogical content knowledge. However, limited research exists on how to combine video-based assignments with standardized and reliable measures of teaching quality. This paper describes how a valid and reliable measure of teacher-student interactions, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System - Secondary (CLASS-S), was integrated into a course within a pre-service secondary mathematics and science teacher program and supported through video-based assignments. The paper outlines how pre-service teacher candidates synthesized the dimensions of the CLASS-S model in conjunction with online and offline video analysis. Implications associated with using the CLASS-S model in conjunction with video-based assignments, as well as recommendations for other teacher preparation programs interested in implementing a similar framework, are discussed.
Presider: Chia Jung Yeh, East Carolina University