Scaffolding students’ knowledge integration: prompts for reflect ion in KIE Elizabeth A. Davis, University of Michigan, USA, email: betsyd@umich. edu, and Marcia C. Linn, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, USA, email: [email protected]Reporter: 張張張 Report Date:2004/01/05
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Scaffolding students’ knowledge integration: prompts for reflection in KIE
Elizabeth A. Davis, University of Michigan, USA, e mail: betsyd@umich. edu, and Marcia C. Linn, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, USA,
• The research designed 3 studies to assess learning from activity and self-monitoring prompts.
• The studies took place in different semesters with different students of this eighth grade class.
Go Back to Method
Prompt delivery
• KIE prompts appear in the form of sentence-starters.
• Self-monitoring prompts typically fall before and after the activity itself.
• Activity prompts compose part of the activity itself.
Go Back to Method
Example of Sentence-starters ◎Self-MonitoringPromptsencourage planning and ref
lection : Thinking ahead: To do a good job on this project, we need to . . . Thinking ahead: To do a good job on our letter, we need to . . . Checking our understanding: Pieces of evidence or claims in the arti
cle we didn’t understand very well included . . . Checking our understanding: In thinking about how it all fits altogeth
er, we’re con fused about . . .
◎ActivityPromptsfacilitate completion of specific aspects of the activity:
The letter says we need to . . . The major claims made by the article include . . . Overall, we think the first evidence/claim we critiqued . . . Claim I should say . . .
Study 1
• Students did a design project called ‘aliens on tour’, they design houses and clothing for three sets of aliens with different requirements.
• Objective : energy conversion
• Comparison of self-monitoring prompts and activity prompts.
• Activity vs. Activity + Self-monitoringGo Back to
Method
Study 2
• Extension and replication of study 1
• Students did a critique project called ‘all the news’, they read a fabricated news article and write a letter to the imaginary editor with a synthesized critique and guidelines for future.
• Activity prompts vs. Self-monitoring prompts vs. beliefs prompts
Go Back to Method
Study 3
• Study 3 investigated the kinds of reflection self-monitoring prompts elicit as well as the relationships between reflection and success on the project.
• We scored overall project success and individual prompt responses.
• Studies 1 and 2 emphasized project success.
• Study 3 emphasized individual prompt response.
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Results
Study 1 : comparison of self-monitoring prompts and activity prompts
• One group : (activity prompts)– 2 activity prompts
• The other group : (self-monitoring prompts )– 2 activity prompts– 7 self-monitoring prompts
• The overall quality of the two groups’ 65 designs for ‘aliens on tour’ was the same.
Study 1 : comparison of self-monitoring prompts and activity prompts ( cont. )
• Although the groups who received only activity prompts had more time for their reports, they did not create better designs.
• The students in the self-monitoring prompt condition gave fewer purely descriptive explanations and, were significantly more likely to use at least one scientific principle in their designs.
Study 2 : extension and replication of comparison
• In study 2 we equalized the time students spent on responding to prompts in each condition.
• Three groups :– activity prompts group (78% completed)– self-monitoring prompts group (32% completed ) – Control group (42% completed)
Study 2 : extension and replication of comparison ( cont. )• The self-monitoring prompt groups was
more likely to link those principles to other ideas.
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Study 3 : in-depth investigation of prompt response and reflection
• In study 3 we investigated the mechanism behind self-monitoring prompts.
• All students received 11 self-monitoring prompts, as well as a set of activity prompts.
• Students left less than 10% of the self-monitoring prompts unanswered.
Study 3 : in-depth investigation of prompt response and reflection ( cont. )
• To analyze reflection, we look at comments made in response to the prompts.
• Comments addressed – Project activities ( 39% )– Project ideas ( 21% )– Knowledge ( 18% )– Actions ( 12% )– ‘No problem’ ( 9% ) - No need for reflection– Did not fit in Table 1( less than 2% )
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Study 3 : in-depth investigation of prompt response and reflection ( cont. )
• Prompts can improve project success when students elaborate on the ideas in the project that do not fully understand.
• Study 3 shows that students who identify confusion benefit more from self-monitoring prompts than those who deny any difficulties.
Discussion - Design implications
• Prompts can enable knowledge integration when they encourage students to monitor their progress and identify new connections among ideas.
• Over 90% of the prompts elicited student responses but, these responses varied.
• The form of self-monitoring prompt also influenced responses.
prompts • Self-monitoring prompts encourage students
to reflect on their own understanding.
• Self-monitoring prompts provide scaffolding to help students think about their goals for and progress on a project.
• Self-monitoring prompts help students to engage in the knowledge integration processes like making links and restructuring ideas.
Conclusions
• Self-monitoring prompts let students make their own thinking visible and explicit, though we see that not all students take advantage of the opportunities given to them.
• Self-monitoring prompts succeed in encouraging reflection more than activity prompts.