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Students' Possibilities to Learn From Group Discussions Integrated in Whole-class Teaching in Mathematics.
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research; Oct2021, Vol. 65 Issue 6, p1020-1036, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to investigate how small-group and whole-class discussions during whole-class teaching contribute to students' learning. The study includes 33 video-recorded small-group discussions in four mathematics lessons on enlarging and reducing two-dimensional geometric figures in Grade 8. The results show that different objects of learning were enacted in the different small-groups' discussions, and that in the majority of the small-group discussions the students did not have the possibility to learn what was intended, since critical aspects were not explored. The combination of group and whole-class discussions contributed to that critical aspects of the specific subject matter came to the fore and thereby were possible to discern. The results indicate that small-group discussions without subsequent whole-class discussions may have less effect on student learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00313831
- Volume :
- 65
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152623955
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2020.1788148