Social dynamics — trust, friendship, openness, and rudeness — shape the effectiveness of dialogic interactions¶

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q1 i? Students who identify as trusted friends build on and engage more with each other's reasoning, and this engagement strongly predicts problem solving accuracy; rudeness has immediate negative effects on collaboration. → trust-friends-1

Evidence¶

trust-friends-1¶

Schank, P., Jenks, L., Barth, C., Crawford, C., Powers, K., & Fusco, J. (2025, May). Classroom Discourse. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/250

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The primer's social-and-cognitive-benefits section reports, citing Clarke et al. (2015), that engagement with each other's reasoning among trusted friends "strongly predicts problem solving accuracy." It also states rudeness spawns reciprocal rudeness and breakdown of collaboration. No effect size is printed.

"students who identify as trusted friends build on and engage more with each others' reasoning, and this engagement strongly predicts problem solving accuracy (Clarke et al., 2015)"

Discussion¶

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