Collaborative Inquiry

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Evidence · 3 claims (2 for, 1 mixed) · 3 studies (3 qualitative), q2 · 0 of 3 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description

Collaborative inquiry is the element in which learners investigate a question together through shared sensemaking and evidence use.

Design Implications

Affordances

• Collaborative Learning
• Inquiry-Based Learning

Claims

• Inquiry-based physics discussion supported peer co-construction of mechanistic explanations, distributing authority of knowledge and language among students [+W]
• Tutorial groups varied widely in when they first entered collaborative sensemaking, from about 13 minutes to nearly 53 minutes of tutorial time [~W]
• The editorial reports that teacher–student collaborative discourse scaffolds data-representation sensemaking and narrative construction [+W]

Related Elements

• Group Work
• Guided Inquiry

Key Sources

• Wells, G. (2000). Dialogic inquiry in education. In C. D. Lee & P. Smagorinsky (Eds.), Vygotskian perspectives on literacy research.

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description	Collaborative inquiry is the element in which learners investigate a question together through shared sensemaking and evidence use.
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