Investigating noisy classrooms: Analysis of small groupwork and teacher-group interactions

Teachers use a variety of teacher-group interactions to support, sustain, and increase small group work and group discussion. These strategies include conferring interactions like nudging, funneling, and eliciting/probing that help students examine their previous or current conceptual understanding. Conversations found in these teacher-group interactions are complex and difficult to code for and interpret. In this study, researchers use a mixed-method and multimodal approach to examine the relationship between teacher-group interactions and group discussion before and after teacher-group interaction. This study specifically focuses on following one teacher, as they navigate from group to group constructing different types of teacher-group interventions to check-in, elicit student thinking, and facilitate group discussion. In this study, researchers explore the different ways that non-lexical speech analytics can help examine collaborative and cooperative learning in small group work. Results of this study demonstrate that a majority of teacher-group interactions lead to increased group discussion after teacher-group interaction. Furthermore, by coding the quality of teacher-group interactions by conferring interactions, nudging had higher percentage of interactions with increased group discussion after teacher-group interaction occurred compared to the other conferring and non-conferring interactions. In exploring teacher-group conversations, I observed how probing/eliciting and nudging change the types of conversation students have during and after teacher-group interactions.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2024

Author dc:creator

• Palaguachi, Christian W

Contributors dc:contributor

• D'Angelo, Cynthia
• Lane , H. Chad
• Krist, Christina

• Small Groups
• Classrooms
• Teacher-group Interactions
• Audio Analysis
• Conferring Interactions

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2024 Christian Palaguachi

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/124219

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F124219