The quality of inter-group interactions shifted from brief, superficial exchanges to long, detailed, collaborative discussions as community norms were negotiated¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? In week 1, inter-group exchanges about experiments were tentative, brief, and superficial; by week 8, students engaged in long detailed discussions and shared experiment-specific expertise. → Irving 2013

Evidence¶

Irving 2013¶

Irving, P. W., & Sayre, E. C. (2013). Conditions for building a community of practice in an advanced physics laboratory. https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1953 doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.1953

q2 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · qualitative · r3

Micro-ethnographic episode analysis comparing a first-week "brief me on the experiment" exchange with a week-8 repeat of the same interaction type, in which Larry gave detailed theory advice. The authors interpret this as "evidence of the evolving nature of the community of practice".

"The briefness of this exchange is also typical of the first week of the semester. The AdLab community of practice had not fully negotiated the norm associated with the amount of time these enquires about experiments could last."

Discussion¶

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