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Reducing the number of children in a presentation and letting them describe similarities and differences made children's knowledge visible to the teacher

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Reducing the presentation group and letting each child describe differences and similarities between shapes allowed the teacher to identify how the children perceived the phenomenon. → Ahlquist 2020

Evidence

Ahlquist 2020

Ahlquist, E.-M. T., & Gynther, P. (2020). Teaching in the Montessori Classroom: Investigating Variation Theory and Embodiment as a Foundation of Teachers' Development. Journal of Montessori Research, 6(1). https://journals.ku.dk/jmr doi:10.17161/jomr.v6i1.12051

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Authors' discussion of the observed change from a 14-child polygon presentation to a five-child quadrilateral presentation. They report the smaller, more active format made it "possible for the teacher to identify how the children perceived the phenomenon."

"By reducing the number of children in the presentations and letting them play a more active role—letting each child, for example, describe the differences and similarities between geometrical shapes—it was possible for the teacher to identify how the children perceived the phenomenon."

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type claim
id small-presentation-groups-make-learning-visible
title Reducing the number of children in a presentation and letting them describe similarities and differences made children's knowledge visible to the teacher
description Reducing the number of children in a presentation and letting them describe similarities and differences made children's knowledge visible to the teacher
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2020
source_checked 2026-10-20
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-09-27
trust unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources 1 — ahlquist-2020

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