Mori-Koschmann2012

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Mori-Koschmann2012
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Mori-Koschmann2012
Author(s) Junko Mori, Timothy Koschmann
Title Good reasons for seemingly bad performance: Competences at the blackboard and the accountability of a lesson
Editor(s) Gitte Rasmussen, Catherine E. Brouwer, Dennis Day
Tag(s) EMCA, Education, Classroom
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2012
Language
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 89–118
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/pbns.225.05mor
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction
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Abstract

The evaluation of students’ competences in educational institutions tends to be associated with the degree of the students’ mastery vis-à-vis specific, preordained curricular goals. Aside from such sanctified measurements of achievement, however, the analysis of competences is in fact embedded in everyday classroom interaction; or rather, it constitutes a critical element for organizing instructional activities. Taking a 8th grade math class as an example, the present chapter examines how two students’ competences are made publically available during their presentation of a geometry proof delivered at the blackboard, an activity situated in a lesson. Through a multimodal analysis of a series of episodes at the board, this chapter demonstrates how the geometry lesson is achieved through the participants’ concerted activities.

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