Pre-written prompts increase Justifications and Alternative ideas in children's pair-programming talk and shift the role of Simple questions¶

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q3 i? In the prompted experimental group, dyads produced statistically significantly more Justifications and Alternative ideas than the control group, and Simple questions were used mainly for coordination rather than domain learning. → Peter Reimann 2021

Evidence¶

Peter Reimann 2021¶

Peter Reimann. (2021). Socio-technical configurations for productive talk. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn (2021) 16:301–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-021-09354-6

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Quasi-experimental study with 62 upper primary students (9–10 years old), half receiving prompts accompanied by verbal reinforcement; talk was coded with a modified Mercer framework and analyzed from code frequencies to ENA temporal patterns. Comparison is experimental versus control group, as printed. No effect size is given.

"The dyads in the experimental group produced statistically significantly more Justifications and Alternative ideas. In both groups, the Simple questions were significantly more frequent than Higher order questions."

Discussion¶

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