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Hu, Liru; Chen, Gaowei – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
This study investigated students' turn-taking patterns during dialogic collaborative problem solving, with analysis based on the participation-shift analytical framework. 168 primary fourth-grade students were assigned to 42 groups and worked on three mathematical problems for a total of 30 minutes. Group-level analysis revealed that most students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
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Kim, Il-Hee – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
This article investigates the effect of participation in synchronous online discussions on the development of individual reasoning as manifested in reflective essays. Students from a fourth-grade classroom engaged in a series of real-time online discussions. The format of the discussion was based on the Collaborative Reasoning approach which has…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Synchronous Communication
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DeNicolo, Christina Passos – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
As classrooms across the U.S. are becoming increasingly more multilingual and multicultural, there is a need for research that provides insight into literacy instruction that builds on students' linguistic knowledge. The qualitative study of a fourth-grade dual-language classroom examined the ways that peer mediation in Spanish and English…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Linguistics, Discussion Groups, Language Proficiency