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Dynamics of Reflective Assessment and Knowledge Building for Academically Low-Achieving Students
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Yang, Yuqin; van Aalst, Jan; Chan, Carol K. K. – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study investigates designs for developing knowledge building (KB) and higher order competencies among academically low-achieving students. Thirty-seven low-achieving students from a ninth-grade visual arts course in Hong Kong participated. The design involved principle-based KB pedagogy, with students writing on Knowledge Forum® (KF),…
Descriptors: Reflection, Student Evaluation, Knowledge Level, Low Achievement
Adapting Teacher Interventions to Student Needs during Cooperative Learning: How to Improve Student Problem Solving and Time On-Task
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Chiu, Ming Ming – American Educational Research Journal, 2004
This study tested a model of teacher interventions (TIs) conducted during cooperative learning to examine how they affected students' subsequent time on-task (TOT) and problem solving. TIs involved groups of ninth-grade students working on an algebra problem; videotaped lessons were transcribed and analyzed. Results showed that teachers initiated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Needs, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
Unpacking Detracking: When Progressive Pedagogy Meets Students' Social Worlds
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Rubin, Beth C. – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
Despite heated debate over detracking, little research exists on how the reform plays out in the classroom. This article, based on a year-long interpretive study of a detracked ninth-grade program at a diverse urban high school, focuses on the encounter between the "official" practices of the detracked classrooms under study and the…
Descriptors: Track System (Education), Social Influences, Grade 9, Urban Schools