A new group member's heavily distanced bid to discuss shifted the Bronze group's norms toward sharing and evaluating ideas¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Britte, unfamiliar with the group's dismissive approach, asked "Are we, um, allowed to discuss now?" with hedging, rising pitch, and physical distancing, opening space for the group's first collaborative sensemaking discussion. → Conlin 2012

Evidence¶

Conlin 2012¶

Conlin, L. D., & Scherr, R. E. (2012). Making Space to Sensemake: Epistemic Distancing in Small Group Physics Discussions. Preprint under review. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Making+Space+to+Sensemake

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Discourse analysis of the Bronze group's first sensemaking discussion in Tutorial 2, in which Britte's distanced bid prompted discussion of predicted velocity graphs; no effect size is printed.

"the Bronze group did not collaboratively sensemake together until a new student asked a question in with enough epistemic distance ("Are we um, allowed to discuss now?") that the norms of the group shifted towards sharing and evaluating each other's ideas."

Discussion¶

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