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Practicality (research question C)
A teaching impact analysis (Janssen, Westbroek & Doyle, 2014a) was used to establish the practicality of the teachers’ regular teaching and the SpeakTeach method (see Appendix IV and V (Part A)). To what extent teachers perceive a teaching method to be useful in practice depends on their assessment of how far the method will enable them to achieve important goals (considered desirability) and their assessment of how far they will be able to implement the method successfully in class (expected probability). Considered desirability and expected probability of the teaching method were both scored on a 7-point Likert scale. In addition, the teachers were asked to name a maximum of five most important advantages, disadvantages and difficulties they experienced with the teaching method.
3.4.4 Procedure
First of all, the teaching impact analysis was used to obtain a baseline measurement on current teaching practices for speaking skills in both the experimental and the control group at the start of the professional development trajectory. The intervention then took place. The visual representations in building blocks of the experimental group's regular teaching practice were collected during the professional development process. Just before the teachers carried out their designed SpeakTeach lessons, an interim measurement was made using teaching impact analysis on the practicality of the SpeakTeach teaching method. The teachers in the experimental group were then asked to carry out SpeakTeach lesson series in their teaching. A total of 30 SpeakTeach lesson series were carried out on which the teachers completed the questionnaire and produced visual representations.
A further measurement using teaching impact analysis was taken after about four months in both the experimental and the control group on their regular teaching of speaking skills and, in the case of the teachers in the experimental group, the instrument was also administered on the SpeakTeach lessons they had given.
3.4.5 Analysis
Analysis of the designing of lesson series and factors taken into consideration (research questions A and B)
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