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| Abstract Title: | Playing around with theory: Multiple perspectives on student activity in an introductory lab |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | As an exercise in grappling with methodologies, I draw on multiple theoretical perspectives to analyze student activity in an introductory physics lab. First, I attend to the moment-by-moment framing of the students and the enactment (and lack thereof) of epistemic agency. Next, I draw on the model-based reasoning and ISLE cycle frameworks to attend to the substance of their reasoning and disciplinary nature of their behavior. Finally, following Rogoff (1990), I shift the unit of analysis to the event and re-articulate these two analyses as theoretically-driven descriptions of how this particular learning environment supports (and doesn't) productive behavior. To compare and evaluate these analyses, I draw on Cobb (2007) to explicitly outline criteria for choosing between theoretical perspectives. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 |
| Poster Number: | B73 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Ian Descamps Tufts University MA |
