ERIC Number: EJ1348407
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Publication Date: 2022-Oct
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Students' Forms of Dialogue When Engaged with Contemporary Biological Research: Insights from University and High School Students' Group Discussions
Hadjicosti, Irene; Korfiatis, Konstantinos; Levinson, Ralph; Price, Stephen
Research in Science Education, v52 n5 p1525-1544 Oct 2022
Classroom dialogues have special educational value because they allow students to engage critically but constructively with each other's ideas, solve scientific problems jointly and develop their scientific understanding. The present study focuses on how groups of twelfth-grade high school and university students communicate and co-operate through dialogue to solve a biological problem they have not encountered before. The specific research questions are as follows: (a) What are the dialogic structures that help students construct scientific explanations? (b) How does prior scientific knowledge support student dialogue in constructing explanations? A coding scheme was developed inductively for the analysis of participants' utterances. We use illustrative exemplars from participants' dialogues to discuss those aspects which might support explanatory reasoning. We focus on reasoned attention for contending opinions and striving for consensus that characterise cases of constructive dialogue. We also discuss observed objections and disagreements as triggering factors for constructive alternative explanations. Finally, we discuss the evidence showing that while prior knowledge supports student reasoning it can also hinder the ability of students to think in a creative way.
Descriptors: Student Research, Scientific Research, Biology, College Students, High School Students, Group Discussion, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Dialogs (Language), Prior Learning, Abstract Reasoning, Barriers, Creative Thinking
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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