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Jennifer M. Langer-Osuna; Emma Gargroetzi; Jen Munson; Rosa Chavez – Grantee Submission, 2020
Off-task activity is ubiquitous in classrooms, yet little understood. Building on recent work that illustrates the utility of off-task activity to disrupt relations of power among students, this article explores the potential functions of off-task participation during collaborative mathematics problem-solving. We examined 56 instances of off-task…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Activities, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students
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Jennifer M. Langer-Osuna; Emma Gargroetzi; Jen Munson; Rosa Chavez – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Off-task activity is ubiquitous in classrooms, yet little understood. Building on recent work that illustrates the utility of off-task activity to disrupt relations of power among students, this article explores the potential functions of off-task participation during collaborative mathematics problem-solving. We examined 56 instances of off-task…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Group Activities, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students
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Lo, Michelle T.; Ruef, Jennifer L. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2020
As institutions strive to improve teaching and learning for all, educators must consider equitable instruction. This includes equitable distributions of authority and agency among students. The authors define distribution of authority as shared opportunities for decision-making in enacting mathematical tasks and agency as the power to carry out…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Student Empowerment, Participative Decision Making