There are several ideas for research projects stewing, so I’m going to try to document them here. I’ll do this in three different posts so that people can comment separately…here’s part 1 of 3.
Idea #1
Yesterday afternoon, Stamatis and Leslie mixed up the groups in Energy 2 - so that each new group was comprised of one (or two) members of the original groups – and the teachers individually explained the energy story that their original group had come up with.
I thought it would be super interesting to follow the members of a single group as they re-explained their group’s energy story to other members of the class. We could not only compare the explanations/conversations that each individual member gave (e.g., compare Teacher 1's explanation to Teacher 2's explanation); we could also compare the individual explanations to the group explanation (i.e., Teacher 1's explanation to Group's explanation).
This sounds interesting! I understand comparing the individual explanations, but can you clarify what the "group's explanation" was and when that occurred?
ReplyDeleteAbi, when I say "group" explanation, I mean the explanation that they negotiated as a group. This might be reflected in what their group's whiteboard depicts, or it might be something that is evaluated on the basis of a conversation that they all participated in. Or something else...good question!
ReplyDeleteAmy, I think this is a fascinating idea and would be really interesting from an assessment point of view. Several people have brought the issue of group assessment v. individual assessment and whether looking at a group's representation (ET or whiteboard) is an accurate reflection of the individuals or only of the "leaders" of the group. The idea of following the members of a group after they are no longer in that group can, I think, begin to address this issue.
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