The effect of a new approach to group work on pupil-pupil and teacher-pupil interactions.
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The main impetus for the SPRinG (social pedagogic research into grouping) project was to address the wide gap between the potential of group work and its limited use in schools. It is an ambitious project that developed key principles and strategies to improve the effectiveness of group work in everyday primary classes and across a whole school year. On-the-spot and video-based systematic observations showed more active, sustained engagement, more connectedness, and more higher order inferential joint reasoning within SPRinG groups than in control comparisons. The authors argue that group work can be successfully implemented into everyday school classrooms and improve pupil interactions, provided teachers take time to train pupils in the skills of group working. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
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For peer-assessment, the teacher can model how learners should interact with one another, but far more is involved.
“For peer-assessment, the teacher in classroom interaction can model for learners the way they should interact with one another, but far more will be involved (Blatchford et al., 2006; Mercer et al., 2004).”
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- Authors
- Blatchford, P., Baines, E., Rubie-Davies, C., Bassett, P., & Chowne, A.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Venue
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Published
- 2006-11
- Volume
- 98
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 750-765
- ISSN
- 0022-0663 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-2176
- OpenAlex
- W2044773498
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Educational Psychology (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- Keywords
- group work, teacher-pupil interaction, elementary school classrooms, student engagement, classroom observation
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