Teachers spent most CSCL class time on task management, content knowledge, technical support and observing, with minimal socio-emotional support¶
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q2 i? Across four classrooms, 48% of the working period was spent on task management (20%), content knowledge (13%), and technical guidance (15%), while observing consumed 40% and socio-emotional support only 4%. → Tarja Pietarinen · Tuire Palonen · Marja Vauras 2021
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Tarja Pietarinen · Tuire Palonen · Marja Vauras 2021¶
Tarja Pietarinen · Tuire Palonen · Marja Vauras. (2021). Guidance in computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning: Capturing aspects of affect and teacher support in science classrooms. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn, 16, 261–287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-021-09347-5
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Video-analysis of four teachers' real-time guidance across 913 coded activity sequences; descriptive frequencies shown in Fig. 1. The article reports "the teachers observed the groups rather intensively (40%)" and socio-emotional support at 4%. Descriptive, no effect size reported.
"almost half of the working period (48%) was spent providing support in task management (20%), content knowledge (13%), and technical guidance (15%). However, the teachers observed the groups rather intensively (40%)"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Teacher guidance distribution tracked perceived willingness to collaborate, not group outcome level or prior science competence
- Highest-outcome groups did not receive more guidance than other groups
- Teachers' self-perceived guidance and affect varied across the three inquiry phases and between teachers
- Teacher self-reported affect was compounded by students' self-reported affect across working phases
- A regulation macro script structured collaboration to support socio-cognitive and socio-emotional monitoring among teacher-education students
- Making rounds minimizes off-task behaviour because pupils monitor for the teacher's approach and adjust their behaviour — related
- Teachers use extracted analytics more for supervision than for guidance, with monitoring the dominant observed action — related
- Teachers' guidance and support in collaborative science inquiry differed by teacher perceptions and group outcomes, and teacher affect was compounded by student affect, per the editorial's report of Pietarinen et al. — related
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Teachers spent most CSCL class time on task management, content knowledge, technical support and observing, with minimal socio-emotional support |
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Teachers spent most CSCL class time on task management, content knowledge, technical support and observing, with minimal socio-emotional support |
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