Impact of Explanation Seeking on Student Achievement and Attitudes

J. Bradley Cousins

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Explanation seeking in academic settings has been characterized in recent research as an achievement related strategy. The impact of explanation seeking on achievement and attitudes was examined in three studies (N = 65 Grade 7 and 8 students and 96 Grade 9 and 10 students) in which the participants learned how to solve correlational reasoning problems in cooperative learning groups. In only one study (in which students worked in pairs on a computer) was there any support for explanation seeking as a productive strategy. The ineffectiveness of explanation seeking was attributed to students' inability to recognize when they needed help and to the quality of the explanations they were given.

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