Productive Disciplinary Engagement in High- and Low-Outcome Student Groups: Observations from Three Collaborative Science Learning Contexts

Autor/inn/en	Koretsky, Milo D.; Vauras, Marja; Jones, Cheryl; Iiskala, Tuike; Volet, Simone
Titel	Productive Disciplinary Engagement in High- and Low-Outcome Student Groups: Observations from Three Collaborative Science Learning Contexts
Quelle	In: Research in Science Education, 51 (2021), S.159-182 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Vauras, Marja)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0157-244X
DOI	10.1007/s11165-019-9838-8
Schlagwörter	Cooperative Learning; Science Education; Outcomes of Education; Learner Engagement; Cognitive Processes; High School Students; Secondary School Science; College Science; Veterinary Medicine; Undergraduate Students; Science Achievement; High Achievement; Low Achievement; Expertise + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kooperatives Lernen; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Tiermedizin; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Expert appraisal
Abstract	This study explored how productive disciplinary engagement (PDE) is associated with the level of cognitive activity and collective group outcome in collaborative learning across multiple contexts. Traditionally, PDE has been studied in a single collaborative learning environment, without analysis of how these environments fulfill the supporting conditions for PDE. In addition, research on the quality of a collective learning outcome and product in relation to the extent of the group's PDE during actual collaborative learning processes is scarce. In this study, the learning processes of low- and high-outcome small groups were compared within three collaborative learning contexts: high school general science, second year university veterinary science, and fourth year university engineering. Two meaningful and self-contained phases from each context were selected for analysis. The same theory-based analytical methods were used across contexts. The findings revealed similar patterns in the high school science and second year university veterinary science data sets, where high-outcome groups displayed a greater proportion of high-level cognitive activity while working on the task. Thus, they could be distinctively perceived as high- and low-performing groups. These high-performing groups' interactions also reflected more of the supporting conditions associated with PDE than the low-performing groups. An opposite pattern was found in the fourth year university engineering data set, calling for interpretation grounded in the literature on the nature and development of expertise. This study reveals the criticality of using comparable analytical methods across different contexts to enable discrepancies to emerge, thus refining our contextualized understanding of PDE in collaborative science learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01