Using Peer Feedback to Improve Students' Scientific Inquiry

This article examines a 7th grade teacher's pedagogical practices to support her students to provide peer feedback to one another using technology during scientific inquiry. This research is part of a larger study in which teachers in California and Washington and their classes engaged in inqui...

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Published in:Journal of science teacher education 2016-02, Vol.27 (1), p.35-59
Main Authors: Tasker, Tammy Q., Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Active Learning
California
Classroom Observation Techniques
Education
Educational Practices
Feedback
Feedback (Response)
Grade 6
Grade 7
Inquiry
Inquiry method
Pedagogy
Peer Evaluation
Peer feedback
Peer relationships
Portfolio Assessment
Protocol Materials
Science Education
Science inquiry
Science Teachers
Scientific Literacy
Scientific Methodology
Student Improvement
Teaching and Teacher Education
Teaching Methods
Technology
Technology Uses in Education
Washington
Web Based Instruction
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Summary:This article examines a 7th grade teacher's pedagogical practices to support her students to provide peer feedback to one another using technology during scientific inquiry. This research is part of a larger study in which teachers in California and Washington and their classes engaged in inquiry projects using a Web-based system called Web of Inquiry. Videotapes of classroom lessons and artifacts such as student work were collected as part of the corpus of data. In the case examined, Ms. E supports her students to collectively define "meaningful feedback," thereby improving the quality of feedback that was provided in the future. This is especially timely, given the attention in Next Generation Science Standards to cross-cutting concepts and practices that require students discuss and debate ideas with each other in order to improve their understanding and their written inquiry reports (NGSS, 2013 ).
ISSN:1046-560X
1573-1847
DOI:10.1007/s10972-016-9454-7