Students collaborating on a semiempty concept map engage more in causal explanation and argumentation, while summary-writing dyads engage more in contextualization¶
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q2 i? Dyads completing a semiempty concept map produced significantly more argumentation and causal explanation utterances than dyads writing a collaborative summary, whose utterances were more often contextualization or off-analysis. → Lucero 2024
Evidence¶
Lucero 2024¶
Lucero, M., Montanero, M., & van Boxtel, C. (2024). Semiempty collaborative concept mapping in history education: students' engagement in historical reasoning and coconstruction. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-024-09659-7
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Chi-square analysis of coded interaction utterances from 10 randomly chosen dyads (5 per condition) in two Spanish history classes. Causal explanation reached 49.9% of concept-mapping utterances versus 8.9% in summary writing; the authors report students "engaged more in argumentation and causal explanation". No effect size printed.
"Chi-square analyses revealed significant differences between the summary writing and the semiempty concept mapping condition (χ 2 = 420.31, p < .01). Compared to the summary writing condition, students in the semiempty concept mapping condition engaged more in argumentation and causal explanation"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Summary writing produced no significant comprehension improvement and the most disputational talk, and did not significantly differ from completing a map in learning outcomes — related
- Summary-writing dyads produce more utterances overall, but most reflect mechanical dictation and copying rather than historical reasoning — related
- Semiempty concept mapping dyads use substantive historical and metahistorical concepts more often than summary-writing dyads — related
- Interaction during semiempty concept mapping shows higher transactivity: less elicitation and more externalization and integration than summary writing — related
- Concept-mapping dyads produce significantly more re-elaborations (corrections and precisions) of partners' ideas, an indicator of collaborative historical reasoning — related
- Evaluative questions elicit more historical reasoning than explanatory questions — related
- Teacher-guided whole-class discussions show more contextualization, explanatory questions, and abstract concepts than student dyad discussions — related
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Students collaborating on a semiempty concept map engage more in causal explanation and argumentation, while summary-writing dyads engage more in contextualization |
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Students collaborating on a semiempty concept map engage more in causal explanation and argumentation, while summary-writing dyads engage more in contextualization |
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