Aligning Coordination Class Theory With a New Context: Applying a Theory of Individual Learning to Group Learning.

Autor/inn/en	Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.; Wittmann, Michael C.
Titel	Aligning Coordination Class Theory With a New Context: Applying a Theory of Individual Learning to Group Learning.
Quelle	In: Science education, 101 (2017) 2, S. 333-363Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8326; 1098-237X
DOI	10.1002/sce.21264
Schlagwörter	Bildungsforschung; Vergleich; Selbstständiges Lernen; Gruppenarbeit; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Naturwissenschaftliches Denken
Abstract	This article presents an empirical analysis of conceptual difficulties encountered and ways students made progress in learning at both individual and group levels in a classroom environment in which the students used an embodied modeling activity to make sense of a specific scientific scenario. The theoretical framework, coordination class theory, has primarily been used to capture individual learning in interview settings, and here it is applied to analytically capture both individual and group learning in a complex classroom environment. Classrooms of ninth-grade earth science students used the position of their bodies to model a specific scientific concept, the steady-state energy of the earth. The students encountered difficulties aligning their understanding of the scientific concept with the models. Subsequently, they changed their models in specific ways that better aligned their understanding of the scientific concept with their newly modified model. The theory is utilized to describe learning by both individuals and the group in this classroom environment and shows how a single student's contribution can dramatically affect the model and subsequent learning. Implications suggest new ways in which the theory may be useful for designing learning environments.
Erfasst von	Arbeitsgruppe Didaktik der Physik, Universität Kassel
Update	2020/3