The TRIPOD PROJECT

The TRIPOD Project

Talk given by: Ron Ferguson (senior lecturer in Educational and Public Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School) about the TRIPOD Student Survey Research at the PACT conference in USD. http://www.tripodproject.org/

7 Cs Predict  à  Student engagement (trust, safety, cooperation, ..)

Caring (encouragement and support)

Captivating (interesting and relevant)

Conferring (ideas are interesting)

Controlling (culture of cooperation and peer support)

Clarifying (success seems feasible)

Challenging (press for effort, perseverance, and rigor)

Consolidating (ideas get connected and integrated)

Which of the 7Cs is the strongest predictor of student outcome? (value added on scoring, ex middle school math)

-Caring and Captivating are the weakest predictors

-Controlling, Challenging,  and Clarifying are the strongest predictors

Tripod:

1) content knowledge,

2) pedagogical skills, and

3) relationship building skills

Key points:

-some classrooms are much more effective with the 7Cs than others

-help predict learning

-in one of the multiple measures of evaluating effective teaching

A composite 7C. (average) Takes mean across all 7Cs to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

244 elementary school classrooms: variations

Even Kindergarten student has an idea of what is effective or not in the 7Cs