Responding to Incorrect Ideas: Science Graduate Teaching Assistants' Operationalization of Error Framing and Undergraduate Students' Perception

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Autor/inn/en	Wan, Tong; Doty, Constance M.; Geraets, Ashley A.; Saitta, Erin K. H.; Chini, Jacquelyn J.
Titel	Responding to Incorrect Ideas: Science Graduate Teaching Assistants' Operationalization of Error Framing and Undergraduate Students' Perception
Quelle	In: International Journal of STEM Education, 10 (2023), Artikel 5 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chini, Jacquelyn J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1186/s40594-023-00398-8
Schlagwörter	College Science; Science Laboratories; Student Centered Learning; Learning Strategies; Anxiety; Error Patterns; Undergraduate Students; Teaching Assistants; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Instructional Effectiveness; Simulation; Classroom Communication; Questioning Techniques; Virtual Classrooms; Faculty Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Angst; Fehlertyp; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Unterrichtserfolg; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Klassengespräch; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik
Abstract	Background: In college science laboratory and discussion sections, student-centered active learning strategies have been implemented to improve student learning outcomes and experiences. Research has shown that active learning activities can increase student anxiety if students fear that they could be negatively evaluated by their peers. Error framing (i.e., to frame errors as natural and beneficial to learning) is proposed in the literature as a pedagogical tool to reduce student anxiety. However, little research empirically explores how an instructor can operationalize error framing and how error framing is perceived by undergraduate students. To bridge the gap in the literature, we conducted a two-stage study that involved science graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and undergraduate students. In stage one, we introduced cold calling (i.e., calling on non-volunteering students) and error framing to 12 chemistry and 11 physics GTAs. Cold calling can increase student participation but may increase student anxiety. Error framing has the potential to mitigate student anxiety when paired with cold calling. GTAs were then tasked to rehearse cold calling paired with error framing in a mixed-reality classroom simulator. We identified GTA statements that aligned with the definition of error framing. In stage two, we selected a few example GTA error framing statements and interviewed 13 undergraduate students about their perception of those statements. Results: In the simulator, all the GTAs rehearsed cold calling multiple times while only a few GTAs made error framing statements. A thematic analysis of GTAs' error framing statements identified ways of error indication (i.e., explicit and implicit) and framing (i.e., natural, beneficial, and positive acknowledgement). Undergraduate student interviews revealed specific framing and tone that are perceived as increasing or decreasing student comfort in participating in classroom discourse. Both undergraduate students and some GTAs expressed negative opinions toward responses that explicitly indicate student mistakes. Undergraduate students' perspectives also suggest that error framing should be implemented differently depending on whether errors have already occurred. Conclusion: Error framing is challenging for science GTAs to implement. GTAs' operationalizations of error framing in the simulator and undergraduate students' perceptions contribute to defining and operationalizing error framing for instructional practice. To increase undergraduate student comfort in science classroom discourse, GTAs can use implicit error indication. In response to students' incorrect answers, GTAs can positively frame students' specific ideas rather than discussing broadly how errors are natural or beneficial. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01