Journal article
Changing Participation Through Formation of Student Learning Communities
2010 Physics Education Research Conference, Vol.1289, pp.85-88
01 Jan 2010
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Abstract
Differences in learning gains between interactive engagement and lecture instructional practices have been well documented and yet the ways in which students participate in each of these learning environments are not clearly established. We use social network analysis as one way to establish differences the participation of students in lecture sections and students in Modeling Instruction, a curriculum that uses interactive engagement. One primary difference in the way students participate in the two instructional practices is that students in Modeling Instruction classes form learning communities and students in lecture classes remain isolated. Students in Modeling Instruction sections report ten times greater numbers of ties between students than those in lecture sections, forming richer and more deeply connected networks. We interpret these differences in terms of a participationist view on learning and as an explanatory mechanism for understanding documented differences in learning gains in the two settings.
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- Title
- Changing Participation Through Formation of Student Learning Communities
- Creators
- Eric Brewe - Florida International UniversityLaird H. Kramer - Florida International UniversityGeorge E. O'Brien - University of Miami
- Publication Details
- 2010 Physics Education Research Conference, Vol.1289, pp.85-88
- Conference
- 2010 Physics Education Research Conference (Portland, Oregon, United States, 21 Jul 2010–22 Jul 2010)
- Series
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Publisher
- Amer Inst Physics
- Number of pages
- 4
- Grant note
- 0802184 / NSF; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics; School of Education
- Identifiers
- 991021970299704721
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