2025-03-06¶
- Paper: Haag, Kirstin, et al. "Co-Teaching in undergraduate STEM education: a lever for pedagogical change toward evidence-based teaching?." CBE—Life Sciences Education 22.1 (2023): es1. site
Notes by Richel¶
- What grade on a scale from 1 (worst) to 10 (best) would you give this paper?
8
- How would you praise the paper?
It is a proper review with helpful tables.
- How would you criticise the paper?
The method the literature was searched was unspecified. 10 out of ~70 references had the last author among the authors.
- How would you summarize the paper in one line?
Co-teaching has effects, mostly positive, but more research is needed.
- How would this paper make us a better teacher?
(putting in bigger context, as recommended by
[Deenadayalan et al., 2008])
It encourages us to try it out.
At first glance, co-teaching seems very exciting. I feel that doing so makes both teachers better, similar to pair programming.
The more interesting question is: 'Is it worth it?'. Is it worth it to have twice as many teachers (hence, twice the financial costs)?
This is a review paper. It is hard to criticise a review paper. Exceptions are:
- Searching only part of the literature
- Citing papers incorrectly
Table 2 with the recommendations is useful: I've already used it :-)
Interesting:
The impact of co-teaching on student evaluations has not been explored, even though instructor and course ratings may impact reward decisions (e.g., merit raises, promotion, tenure).
How to decide if co-teaching is worth it? It takes twice as much people teaching and more than twice the time to prepare. However, we do know that the two best ways to grow as a teacher is from peer observation and writing reflections. I feel co-teaching is like mutual peer observation. It forces one to work togethers, where this is especially rare with course material.
10 of the ~100 papers are by Andrews, the last author.
[Kursch & Veteska] and [Stark, 2015] mentions some disadvantages.
[Spörer et al., 2021] is all positive here, although the title
of the paper suggests otherwise.
| Paper | Number of citations |
|---|---|
[Haag et al., 2023] |
19 |
[Barron & Friend, 2024] |
2 |
[Nápoles, 2024] |
4 |
A more recent review has been written [Vembye et al., 2024],
however, it was about determining the effect size
of co-teaching, which is estimated to be 0.11.
Other recent reviews are:
[Barron & Friend, 2024]:[Nápoles, 2024]:
A review on how to learn to co-teach is [Rytivaara et al., 2024].
References¶
[Barron & Friend, 2024]Barron, Tammy, and Marilyn Friend. "Co-teaching: Are we there yet?." Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation (2024): 1-26.[Haag et al., 2023]Haag, Kirstin, et al. "Co-Teaching in undergraduate STEM education: a lever for pedagogical change toward evidence-based teaching?." CBE—Life Sciences Education 22.1 (2023): es1. site[Kursch & Veteska]Kursch, M., and P. J. Veteska. "Advantages and disadvantages of co-teaching." Prague, Czech Republic (2020).[Spörer et al., 2021]Spörer, Nadine, Thorsten Henke, and Stefanie Bosse. "Is there a dark side of co-teaching? A study on the social participation of primary school students and their interactions with teachers and classmates." Learning and Instruction 71 (2021): 101393.[Stark, 2015]Stark, Emily. "Co-teaching: The benefits and disadvantages." Journal on best teaching practices 2.2 (2015): 7-8.[Nápoles, 2024]Nápoles, Jessica. "Co-Teaching: A Review of the Literature." Update: Applications of Research in Music Education (2024): 87551233231226131.[Rytivaara et al., 2024]Rytivaara, Anna, et al. "Learning to co-teach: A systematic review." Education Sciences 14.1 (2024): 113.[Vembye et al., 2024]Vembye, Mikkel Helding, Felix Weiss, and Bethany Hamilton Bhat. "The effects of co-teaching and related collaborative models of instruction on student achievement: A systematic review and meta-analysis." Review of Educational Research 94.3 (2024): 376-422.