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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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Baek, Yoomee; Taylor, Kellie – Music Education Research, 2020
This study examines group robotics' impacts on elementary students' attitudes toward music, attitudes toward group work, and music composition when they are composing music via a robotics platform in collaborative and cooperative groups. One hundred ninety-one students in fourth and fifth grades completed the music composing project over the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Music Education, Musical Composition, Robotics
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Saleh, Mohammad; Lazonder, Ard W.; Jong, Ton de – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
Average-ability students often do not take full advantage of learning in mixed-ability groups because they hardly engage in the group interaction. This study examined whether structuring collaboration by group roles and ground rules for helping behavior might help overcome this participatory inequality. In a plant biology course, heterogeneously…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Student Motivation, Helping Relationship, Biology