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Not a Team but Learning as One: The Impact of Consistent Attendance on Discourse Diversification in Math Group Modeling

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Mark Abdelshiheed,

Jennifer Jacobs,

Sidney D'MelloAuthors Info & Claims

UMAP '24: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3627043.3659554

Published: 22 June 2024 Publication History

UMAP '24: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Not a Team but Learning as One: The Impact of Consistent Attendance on Discourse Diversification in Math Group Modeling

Pages 120 - 131

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This work investigates relationships between consistent attendance —attendance rates in a group that maintains the same tutor and students across the school year— and learning in small group tutoring sessions. We analyzed data from two large urban districts consisting of 206 9th-grade student groups (3 − 6 students per group) for a total of 803 students and 75 tutors. The students attended small group tutorials approximately every other day during the school year and completed a pre and post-assessment of math skills at the start and end of the year, respectively. First, we found that the attendance rates of the group predicted individual assessment scores better than the individual attendance rates of students comprising that group. Second, we found that groups with high consistent attendance had more frequent and diverse tutor and student talk centering around rich mathematical discussions. Whereas we emphasize that changing tutors or groups might be necessary, our findings suggest that consistently attending tutorial sessions as a group with the same tutor might lead the group to implicitly learn as a team despite not being one.

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Cohen MCooke NGorman JFiore SGray WBanerjee SHirshfield LNguyen D(2024)Future of Team Research: On Teamness and Dimensions of Variability in TeamsProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting10.1177/1071181324127828868:1(423-426)Online publication date: 2-Sep-2024
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