Contemporary Issues in Group Learning in Undergraduate Science Classrooms: A Perspective from Student Engagement

CBE Life Sciences Education
Linda C Hodges

Abstract

As the use of collaborative-learning methods such as group work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes has grown, so has the research into factors impacting effectiveness, the kinds of learning engendered, and demographic differences in student response. Generalizing across the range of this research is complicated by the diversity of group-learning approaches used. In this overview, I discuss theories of how group-work formats support or hinder learning based on the ICAP (interactive, constructive, active, passive) framework of student engagement. I then use this model to analyze current issues in group learning, such as the nature of student discourse during group work, the role of group learning in making our classrooms inclusive, and how classroom spaces factor into group learning. I identify key gaps for further research and propose implications from this research for teaching practice. This analysis helps identify essential, effective, and efficient features of group learning, thus providing faculty with constructive guidelines to support their work and affirm their efforts.

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May 27, 2020·CBE Life Sciences Education·Stepfanie M AguillonCissy J Ballen
Feb 27, 2021·CBE Life Sciences Education·Jeremy L Hsu, Gregory R Goldsmith
Mar 23, 2021·Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education : a Bimonthly Publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology·Chun Zhou, Matthew Lewis

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