Research
Find out more about research on dialogic instruction and classroom discourse.
The CLASS program (© UW-Board of Regents 1988-2013) was developed by Martin Nystrand at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) for the in-class analysis of classroom discourse. Grounded in dialogic instruction, t is a research tool used to build profiles of classroom interaction and to investigate the effects of classroom discourse on student achievement. CLASS 5.0 (in development) will autonomously measure and assess key indices of classroom discourse. Our ultimate goal is a program which will need no observer or research assistant data collector, nothing intrusive in classrooms, no violation of teacher or student identity. Just a super smart phone app-like device and some microphones that autonomously process classroom discourse.
This joint effort is housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is a collaboration between UW-Madison, the Institute for Intelligent Systems (Memphis), University of Notre Dame, and the University of Pittsburgh. The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A130030 to University of Wisconsin-Madison. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education. Copyright ©2017, The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System