READ ME File For 'Data for Teacher expectations and language in a classroom context'

Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2851

ReadMe Author: Rebecca Thompson, University of Southampton ORCID ID 0000-0002-4358-2616

This dataset supports the thesis entitled "Teacher expectations and language in a classroom context"
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2023

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
An Excel spreadsheet with the raw data from all observations. 
> Proportional data shows the proprotion of each type of comment (4 categories) made by teachers during the observation. 'Recollections' refers to the proportion of comments teachers recollected they had used. 'Actual' refers to the observational data collected by the researcher.
> Frequency of comments. This is calculated from the same original data from the observations. (Number of comments in each category, divided by the number of minutes duration of the observation.)

The PDF file contains the SPSS output for the analyses conducted. It also contains examples of the quotes collected during interviews and how these were organised into themes during thematic analysis.

The Word documents are the participant information sheet and the consent form used.

This dataset contains:

1 Excel spreadsheet
1 portable document format file
2 Word documents


Date of data collection: June to October 2022

Information about geographic location of data collection: UK schools

Licence:
Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 

Date that the file was created: November 2023