Speaker: Dr. Ricardo Böheim
Talk title: Student engagement in classroom interactions: Studying students' hand-raising behavior during whole-class discourse.
Abstract: Researchers and educators emphasize that classroom learning is highly dependent students’ active engagement. Hand raising represents students’ main pathway to actively engage in whole-class interactions with teachers and peers. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent research on what we currently know about the behavior of student hand raising. I will then present findings from a recent video study that investigates the relationship between hand raising, and cognitive and motivational learner characteristics. I will further share our empirical findings on supportive teaching behaviors and on how teachers distribute their attention among (non)-hand raising students. I will end the talk by discussing the relevance of this “simple” yet important student behavior and discuss implications for both educators and researchers.
Bio: Dr. Ricardo Böheim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Educational Psychology (Prof. Dr. Tina Seidel) at TUM. After majoring in Science Education for Secondary School Teaching he completed his doctoral studies at the Department Educational Sciences (2016-2020). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Augsburg and returned to TUM in November 2021 to conduct his habilitation qualification. His current research centers around students’ active engagement in classroom learning with a distinct focus on the behavior of student hand raising. Further, he is interested in video-based learning environments and their potential to foster (preservice) teacher learning and teacher professional development.
Location: Marsstraße 20-22, Room 120
Date: June 20, 12:15 - 13:30 h
Zoom link: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/2110826825 ; Passcode: 344980