Leadership moves are distributed among members of children's collaborative learning groups rather than concentrated in a single leader¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In study one, leadership moves were distributed among group members, with some groups showing balanced leadership and others one or two emergent leaders. → E. M. Mercier 2014 q2 i? In study two, 1,377 leadership moves were identified across 22 groups and 82% were accepted, with groups varying between one leader, main-plus-secondary leaders, and shared leadership. → E. M. Mercier 2014 (2)

Evidence¶

E. M. Mercier 2014¶

E. M. Mercier, S. E. Higgins, Laura da Costa. (2014). Different leaders: Emergent organizational and intellectual leadership in children's collaborative learning groups. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-014-9201-z

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Observational coding of eight groups of year six pupils completing history and math mystery tasks. The article reports that "leadership moves appear to be distributed among group members," with variation across groups in whether leadership was balanced or concentrated.

"While some groups showed a balance of leadershipmoves across participants (e.g., group 1), in others one or two leaders emerged (e.g., group 3 or 4). Thus leadership moves appear to be distributed among group members"

E. M. Mercier 2014 (2)¶

E. M. Mercier, S. E. Higgins, Laura da Costa. (2014). Different leaders: Emergent organizational and intellectual leadership in children's collaborative learning groups. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-014-9201-z

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Coding of 22 groups in a multi-touch classroom study. The article reports "1,377 leadership moves were identified from 11,126 utterances across the 22 groups" and that 82% were accepted, with groups categorized as one leader, main and secondary leaders, or shared leadership.

"A total of 1,377 leadership moves were identified from 11,126 utterances across the 22 groups (12 % of utterances were coded as leadership moves); 1,127 or 82 % of leadership moves were accepted."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Emergent leadership did not differ between multi-touch table and paper conditions in study one
• Distinct intellectual and organizational emergent leader roles, taken by different students, can be identified in about half of collaborative groups — related
• Patterns of emergent leadership differed across disciplinary content areas, with some students leading in math but not history — related
• Some groups had an intellectual leader without an organizational leader, but no group had an organizational leader without an intellectual leader — related
• Leadership in collaborative learning is an interactional group phenomenon requiring bids to be taken up — related
• Without assigned roles, all group members generally participate in many core dimensions of group leadership, which emerges as an interactive group phenomenon — related
• A collaboration kit with joint and private multi-touch table spaces outperformed comparison groups, showing less biased communication and more collaborative processes. — related
• Debriefing analysis and application phases operate as distributed metacognition on the publicly shared account — related
• Congress speakers advocate distributing lessons in early secondary years and concentrating them in higher lycee classes — related