TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tetzlaff, Leonard
A1  - Hartmann, Ulrike
A1  - Dumont, Hanna
A1  - Brod, Garvin
T1  - Assessing individualized instruction in the classroom
BT  - comparing teacher, student, and observer perspectives
JF  - Learning and instruction : the journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
N2  - In this article, we address the measurement of individualized instruction in the context of regular classroom instruction. Our study assessed instructional practices geared towards individualization in German third grade reading lessons by combining self-report data from 621 students, from their teachers (n = 57), and live obser-vations. We then investigated the reliability of these different approaches to measuring individualization as well as the agreement between them. All three approaches yielded reliable indicators of individualized practices, but not all of them corresponded with each other. We found considerable agreement between students and observers, but neither agreed with teachers' self-reports. Upon closer examination, we found that students' ratings only correlated with teacher ratings that were provided close to the timepoint of interest. This correlation increased when teacher measures were corrected for response tendencies. We conclude with some recommendations for future studies that aim to measure individualized instruction in the classroom.
KW  - Individualization
KW  - Personalization
KW  - Differentiation
KW  - Adaptive teaching;
KW  - Individualized instruction
KW  - Instructional quality
KW  - Learning
KW  - environments
KW  - Live observations
KW  - Classroom research
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101655
SN  - 0959-4752
SN  - 1873-3263
VL  - 82
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -