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Transition taxonomy: pragmatic and pedagogical social transitions organized by activity impact, group-size direction, and fluidity

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The article presents a transition taxonomy that outlines the range of social transitions occurring in classrooms, distilled from prior literature and printed as Table 1. It distinguishes two top-level types: pragmatic transitions, which are 'not based in learning theory but still are practical considerations that add to the teacher's load', and pedagogical transitions that are part of the learning design and often inspired by learning theory. Each transition is characterized by activity impact (whole activity, between activities, within an activity), direction of group-size impact (increase, decrease, same), and fluidity (synchronous vs. asynchronous). The taxonomy structured the scenarios used in both studies.

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  • Transition taxonomy: pragmatic and pedagogical social transitions organized by activity impact, group-size direction, and fluidity: The article presents a transition taxonomy that outlines the range of social transitions occurring in classrooms, distilled from prior literature and printed as Table 1. It distinguishes two top-level types: pragmatic transitions, which are 'not based in learning theory but still are practical considerations that add to the teacher's load', and pedagogical transitions that are part of the learning design and often inspired by learning theory. Each transition is characterized by activity impact (whole activity, between activities, within an activity), direction of group-size impact (increase, decrease, same), and fluidity (synchronous vs. asynchronous). The taxonomy structured the scenarios used in both studies. (Jennifer K. Olsen et al. (2021))

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  • Jennifer K. Olsen & Nikol Rummel & Vincent Aleven. (2021). Designing for the co-Orchestration of Social Transitions between Individual, Small-Group and Whole-Class Learning in the Classroom. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 31:24–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-020-00228-w
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title Transition taxonomy: pragmatic and pedagogical social transitions organized by activity impact, group-size direction, and fluidity
description The article presents a transition taxonomy that outlines the range of social transitions occurring in classrooms, distilled from prior literature and printed as Table 1.
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