Extending Frameworks to Measure Collaborative Group Productive Disciplinary Engagement in STEM Classrooms

• In Event: 43.014 - Science and Motivation Within Sociocultural Contexts

Abstract

This project extends Engle and Conant’s (2002) conceptualization of students’ productive disciplinary engagement (PDE), to describe shared, multifaceted, and dynamic student engagement in the context of collaborative, classroom group work. Focus on collaborative group work is responsive to recent instructional standards which call for students’ integrated understanding of STEM content and practices, as part of collaborative activity. The purpose of this work is theoretical development (i.e., specifying this extended definition PDE), as well as methodological development in order to document patterns of PDE in classroom activities, specifically those that integrate disciplinary content and practices in instruction. This presentation will discuss the new PDE framework resulting from multi-context analysis, a rubric that operationalizes the framework, and results of validation studies.

Authors

• Toni Kempler Rogat, Purdue University

• Britte Haugan Cheng, Menlo Education Research

• Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Indiana University

• Temitope F. Adeoye, Purdue University

• Andrea Sarah Gomoll, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Anne Traynor, Purdue University

• Patrik Lundh, SRI International