Adolescents’ Engagement Styles During Collaborative Discussions: A Latent Profile Analysis (Poster 15)

• In Event: Thursday Poster Session 2:30 pm
  In Poster Session: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts 1

Abstract

This study investigated adolescents’ engagement styles during collaborative discussions. Participants were 29 seventh-graders from four discussion groups (7-8 students per group) in a rural middle school in China. Each group had seven collaborative discussions and the total length of discussions videos was 765.9 minutes. Each discussion were coded moment-by-moment to capture behavioral, cognitive, and emotional interactions and a total of 6,520 interactions were identified. A latent profile analysis of peer interactions revealed four engagement styles: mildly engaged, highly engaged, cognitively engaged but not emotionally engaged, and emotionally engaged but not cognitively engaged. The results indicated that engagement styles varied greatly across individuals. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of how adolescents regulate their engagement in collaborative discussions.

Authors

• Shuang Wu, East China Normal University

• Shufeng Ma, East China Normal University