A Tool for Visualizing and Inquiring into Whole-Class Sensemaking Discussions

Autor/inn/en	Colley, Carolyn; Windschitl, Mark
Titel	A Tool for Visualizing and Inquiring into Whole-Class Sensemaking Discussions
Quelle	In: Research in Science Education, 51 (2021) 1, S.51-70 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Colley, Carolyn) ORCID (Windschitl, Mark)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0157-244X
DOI	10.1007/s11165-020-09962-6
Schlagwörter	Science Instruction; Persuasive Discourse; Teaching Methods; Discourse Analysis; Student Participation; Visual Aids; Classroom Communication; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary School Students; Teacher Student Relationship; Discussion (Teaching Technique); Correlation; Visualization; Grade 5; Grade 6 + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Diskursanalyse; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Anschauungsmaterial; Klassengespräch; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Korrelation; Visualisation; Visualisierung; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06
Abstract	In science classrooms, the epistemic practices of explanation building and argumentation often extend over multiple episodes of talk during a single lesson or across several lessons. Analyzing this kind of discourse requires a way to identify patterns that emerge over time to better understand student participation and how teachers support students' disciplinary work. In this paper, we share the development of a unique graphic representation of classroom talk which we call barcodes. These barcodes assisted our analysis of when and how, over multiple points in a school year, three elementary science teachers facilitated students' science sensemaking during whole-class discussions in ways that ended up promoting, sustaining, or constraining students' collective development of ideas. Barcodes allowed us to see that each teacher regularly engaged students in rigorous whole-class talk over a school year, yet each classroom had distinct patterns of teacher involvement and activity sequences that preceded or co-occurred with these conversations. Paired with transcripts, barcodes illuminated a relationship between teacher responsiveness to specific student ideas and higher discursive rigor. Finally, iterative cross-referencing between barcodes and transcripts sparked further inquiries into supportive conditions for talk that were not as apparent using transcripts alone. In this way, the barcode functioned both as an analytical tool and a final visualization of discourse events in a series of lessons from grades 5 and 6 science classrooms. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01