Student participation in elementary mathematics classrooms: The missing link between teacher practices and student achievement?

Individual student participation is positively linked to individual student achievement.

“The study found a positive link between student participation and achievement.”

Our findings are more in line with the perspective that classroom discourse affects different students in a class in different ways, depending on how actively they participate.

“Our findings are thus more in line with the perspective, previously outlined by the studies of Webb et al. (2014) and Ing et al. (2015), that classroom discourse affects different students in a class in different ways, depending on how actively they participate.”

Students who intensely verbally participate in class achieve better results than their less vocal schoolmates.

“Some studies have indicated that students who intensely verbally participate in class achieve better results than their less vocal schoolmates”

Students who more often developed their own ideas in conversation and explained their ideas to others achieved better results in standardized mathematics tests.

“The findings indicated that the students who more often developed their own ideas in conversation and explained their ideas to others achieved better results in those tests.”

Individual student talk matters, and vocal participation contributes more than silent participation.

“Individual student talk matters (see Ing et al., 2015;Larrain et al., 2019;Sedova et al., 2019;Webb et al., 2014), and vocal participation contributes more than silent participation.”