Time spent in inter-group interactions increased substantially over the semester in the advanced laboratory course¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r3 · q2 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2016: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The percentage of lab time spent interacting with other groups rose for all three observed groups between the second experiment and the penultimate experiment of the semester. → 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 · i2 · qualitative · r3

Quantitative observational analysis of three lab groups, coding inter-group interactions across three methods and reporting percent of total time spent talking to other groups. The authors state the initial-final differences are "significantly different" for all three groups, with Group B increasing less than the others.

"Time Period of Semester Group A Group B Group C Initial 1.8% 0.9% 5.1% Final 12.4% 8.0% 17.3%"

Discussion¶

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