Student Behaviors and Interactions Influence Group Discussions in an Introductory Biology Lab Setting.

ABSTRACT: Past research on group work has primarily focused on promoting change through implementation of interventions designed to increase performance. Recently, however, education researchers have called for more descriptive analyses of group interactions. Through detailed qualitative analysis of recorded discussions, we studied the natural interactions of students during group work in the context of a biology laboratory course. We analyzed multiple interactions of 30 different groups as well as data from each of the 91 individual participants to characterize the ways students engage in discussion and how group dynamics promote or prevent meaningful discussion. Using a set of codes describing 15 unique behaviors, we determined that the most common behavior seen in student dialogue was analyzing d

SUBMITTER: Paine AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8693937 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature