scholarly journals Accuracy and Idea Consideration: A Study of Small-Group Interaction in Biology

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy R. Cavagnetto ◽  
Joshua Premo ◽  
Zachary Coleman ◽  
Kate Juergens

The study examines the relationship between scientific accuracy of contributions, peer idea consideration, one’s ability to direct the conversation, and learning outcomes of students engaged in small-group work in an introductory undergraduate biology lab course.

Author(s):  
Shulin Yu

While research on peer interaction in language learning has proliferated over the past two decades, little is known regarding why students interact differently with their peers and how collaborative patterns can be developed to promote the effectiveness of small group work in L2 learning. To fill such a void in the research literature, the present case study investigates the factors that shape the collaborative pattern of a small group of Chinese EFL learners in peer feedback activities. Multiple sources of data were collected, including video recordings of peer feedback sessions, semi-structured interviews, stimulated recalls, and student drafts of writing. The findings show that students’ beliefs and values, students’ motives and goals, the use of mediating artifacts, and the power relationship among the students shape the patterns of group interaction considerably. This study deepens our understanding of the nature of peer interaction in peer feedback for L2 writing and contributes new knowledge to the research on pair and small group work in L2 learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Nanda Septiana

This study focuses on: whether there is an effect of small group work learning strategies on thematic learning outcomes and how much influence small group work learning strategies have on thematic learning outcomes of class V SDNU Bangil students. This research method uses quantitative correlation with data collation techniques through questionnaires, observations, interviews, and documentation and data analysis using product moment correlation statistics. From the results of this study indicate that the learning strategy of small group work on thematic learning outcomes of class V SDNU Bangil students has no effect that before the small group work learning strategy was carried out, 30% grade V students did not achieve the Minimum Completeness Criteria (KKM), while after 32% implementation of small group work learning strategies that did not reach the KKM. As the results of the data analysis obtained that first, there is no effect of small group work learning strategies on thematic learning outcomes of class V SDNU Bangil students, this is evidenced by the value of statistical data results which show that "r" work (ie 0.26) is more the size of the "r" product moment table where N = 28 in the 95% confidence interval is 0.374 and in the 99% confidence interval a value of 0.478 is obtained, it can be said that there is no influence between variable X and variable Y. Thus the working hypothesis the writer used stated that there was no effect of small group work learning strategies on thematic learning outcomes of class V SDNU Bangil students "not accepted". Second, the influence of small group work learning strategies on thematic learning outcomes of class V SDNU Bangil students is low. This is evidenced by the results of statistical data analysis which shows that the "r" of work is 0.26 in the coefficient interval 0.20 - 0.399.


Author(s):  
Asrina Sari Siregar ◽  
Sumarsih Sumarsih ◽  
Masitowarni Siregar

This study attempts to discover the effect of applying Small Group Work Strategy on students’ achievement in writing procedure text. It was conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research was the nineth (IX) grade students of SMP N 1 Padang Bolak Julu which consists of 3 parallel classes with the total number of students is 90. The samples of this research were taken by random sampling through lottery technique. The result was class IX1 consisted of 30 students became the experimental group and class IX3 consisted of 30 students became the control group. The experimental group was taught by Small Group Work Strategy while the control group was taught by using individual work strategy. The instrument was used to collect the data was writing procedure text. After the data were analyzed, it was found that the value of t-observed was 3.37 with the degree of freedom (df) = 58 at the level significance 0.05. it means that t-observed was higher than t-table (3.37 > 2.00. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) is reected and the hypothesis alternative (Ha) is accepted.Key words : Small Group Work Strategy, Writing Procedure Text.


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