Negotiation towards intersubjectivity and impacts on conceptual outcomes

Catherine L. Dornfeld, Sadhana Puntambekar

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Abstract

To achieve a collective goal, students collaborating in groups must share their interpretations of the goal to negotiate a shared understanding, or establish intersubjectivity, before making progress towards that goal. To investigate negotiation towards intersubjectivity along with students' conceptual outcomes, we studied the discourse of two groups of middleschool students who participated in a 12-week science curriculum. We also evaluated differences in scores on a physics assessment. We found differences in how groups negotiated shared understandings of tasks and concepts and how they participated in conceptual discourse. Group A required significantly more instances of negotiation to establish intersubjectivity compared to Group B, indicating that Group A struggled with establishing shared understandings. Students in Group A also demonstrated greater variance in conceptual discourse and assessment scores, whereas Group B demonstrated more aligned conceptual outcomes. These results indicate that effective negotiation for establishing intersubjectivity is not only an important first step for students' participation in conceptual discourse, but also for achieving balanced learning gains across group members.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2016
Subtitle of host publicationTransforming Learning, Empowering Learners, Proceedings
EditorsChee-Kit Looi, Joseph L. Polman, Ulrike Cress, Peter Reimann
PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Pages562-569
Number of pages8
Volume1
ISBN (Electronic)9780990355090
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners, ICLS 2016 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Jun 20 2016Jun 24 2016

Other

Other12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners, ICLS 2016
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period6/20/166/24/16

Keywords

  • Collaboration
  • Conceptual Discourse
  • CSCL
  • Intersubjectivity
  • Learning Outcomes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • Education

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