Interaction of initiating prompts and the patterns of student engagement in higher education biology classrooms
Hlologelo C. Khoza,
Thato I. Makgata
Abstract:The purpose of this study was to understand the interactions of prompts used to initiate engagement and the resulting student engagement using video-data from one biology lecturer in a semester-long module. This study was informed by the socio-cultural perspectives on learning. The transcripts from video data were divided into interactive episodes. In these episodes, we looked for how the prompts (classified as verbal and non-verbal) interacted to bring student engagement. Findings indicate that the prompts in… Show more
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