Concurrent student-managed discussions in a large class

The impact of individual and shared clicker use on students' collaborative learning

“…Previous clickers studies that analyzed student interaction focused how much time individual students spent giving arguments and comments (Nielsen et al, 2014), but these coding categories did not capture whether arguments were co-constructed by multiple participants across multiple turns. Therefore, we drew upon the coding categories used in collaborative reasoning studies with children (Dong, Anderson, Lin, & Wu, 2009) and studies of collaborative critical reflection with university students (Higgins, Flower, & Petraglia, 1992;Neumann & McDonough, 2015). Reasoning was operationalized as talk to advance, support, or challenge a position.…”

Children’s Moral Reasoning: Influence of Culture and Collaborative Discussion

“…Cbildren wbo bave participated CR discussions in America, Cbina and Korea are more likely to exbibit tbe pattern of argument, counterargument, and rebuttal in tbeir essays than children in control groups Dong et al, 2008Dong et al, , 2009). Our explanation for these findings is that CR helps children develop a better overall sense of argument, hereafter termed an argument schema.…”

“…This paper presents a further analysis of the reflective essays of Chinese and American children collected in three previous studies Dong et al, 2008Dong et al, , 2009. A total of 268 fourth-and fifth-grade students (138 girls, 130 boys) from 10 different classrooms in 7 different schools in China and America participated in the three studies.…”

“…The two studies in China were conducted in Anhui province in the Southeast of China (Dong et al, 2008(Dong et al, , 2009). There were 148 fourth-and fifth-grade students (71 girls, 77 boys) from four classrooms in three public schools, one rural and two urban, serving mostly low-to middle-income families.…”

“…A counterargument is a statement produced by a student that opposes the student's initial position on the question (Dong et al, 2009). Counterarguments were coded as a binary variable, with 1 indicating that there was at least one counterargument included in an eásay and 0 indicating there was none.…”