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Group Discussion and Large-Scale Language Arts Assessment: Effects on Students' Comprehension:

Group Discussion and Large-Scale Language Arts Assessment: Effects on Students'... Large-scale assessment programs are beginning to design group assessment tasks in which small groups of students collaborate to solve problems or complete projects. Little is known, however, about the effects of collaboration on students' cognitive processes and performance on such tests. The present study compared, student performance on language arts tests in which they either were or were not permitted to discuss the story they were required to read and interpret. The analyses compared the quality of student responses on test forms with and without collaboration, examined qualitative changes in students' responses before and after collaboration, and examined students' reflections about the impact of collaboration on their understanding of the story. The results show that a 10-min discussion of the story in three-person groups had a substantial impact on students' understanding of the story. Implications for the design of instructional and assessment contexts with peer collaboration are discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Educational Research Journal SAGE

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SAGE
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Copyright © 2019 by American Educational Research Association
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0002-8312
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1935-1011
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10.3102/00028312037004911
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Abstract

Large-scale assessment programs are beginning to design group assessment tasks in which small groups of students collaborate to solve problems or complete projects. Little is known, however, about the effects of collaboration on students' cognitive processes and performance on such tests. The present study compared, student performance on language arts tests in which they either were or were not permitted to discuss the story they were required to read and interpret. The analyses compared the quality of student responses on test forms with and without collaboration, examined qualitative changes in students' responses before and after collaboration, and examined students' reflections about the impact of collaboration on their understanding of the story. The results show that a 10-min discussion of the story in three-person groups had a substantial impact on students' understanding of the story. Implications for the design of instructional and assessment contexts with peer collaboration are discussed.

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American Educational Research Journal – SAGE

Published: Jun 24, 2016

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