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Less Is More: Teachers' Influence during Peer Collaboration
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Lin, Tzu-Jung; Jadallah, May; Anderson, Richard C.; Baker, Amanda R.; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; Kim, Il-Hee; Kuo, Li-Jen; Miller, Brian W.; Dong, Ting; Wu, Xiaoying – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study examined the influence of teachers' instructional moves on students' relational thinking during small-group collaborative discussions. One hundred and twenty 4th grade students and 6 teachers participated in a series of 10 discussions, generating a video-recorded corpus containing 32,511 turns for speaking. A microanalysis of a subset…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Small Group Instruction, Group Discussion, Thinking Skills
Enhancing Motivation and Engagement through Collaborative Discussion
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Wu, Xiaoying; Anderson, Richard C.; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; Miller, Brian – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Fourth- and fifth-grade students' motivation and engagement during classroom discussions were investigated in 2 studies. Study 1 examined students' moment-by-moment engagement during collaborative peer-managed small-group discussions in comparison to conventional teacher-managed whole-class discussions. Study 2 evaluated the long term effects of…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement