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Advancing Knowledge-Building Discourse through Judgments of Promising Ideas
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Chen, Bodong; Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2015
Evaluating promisingness of ideas is an important but underdeveloped aspect of knowledge building. The goal of this research was to examine the extent to which Grade 3 students could make promisingness judgments to facilitate knowledge-building discourse. A Promising Ideas Tool was added to Knowledge Forum software to better support…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Learning Processes, Epistemology
Group-Level Formative Feedback and Metadiscourse
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Resendes, Monica; Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl; Chen, Bodong; Halewood, Cindy – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2015
This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the comparison and experimental classes: "Knowledge Building talk" (KB talk) involving…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Meta Analysis, Grade 2