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Voices from the Field- Orchestrating a Productive Discussion from a Data Investigation
Understanding students’ conceptual development and, recognizing, anticipating, and sequencing students’ work on a task are essential when planning and teaching with tasks that are open-ended. In open-ended tasks, students have a lot of freedom to choose how to produce a solution and support their work with appropriate evidence and arguments. This video gives an opportunity to consider how a teacher sequences students’ work and asks questions to encourage students to explain and justify their work. This video is an animated depiction of actual students’ work on the vehicle fuel economy data investigation. The sequence of students’ work and questions posed the teacher have been crafted to illustrate the possibility of organizing such a discussion from an open-ended data investigation. It will be useful to read a brief description of the task and investigate the data before watching the video.
Guiding Documents
A PDF of a brief description of the task used in this video. | Vehicle Task |
The data used by students in this task using a free online tool CODAP. | Vehicle Data in CODAP |
The following questions can be used to guide discussion around this 6:33 minute video:
- As students presented their work, what types of questions did the teacher ask?
- How did the data analysis tool CODAP seem to afford or constrain students’ work on this task?
- Think about the sequence of students’ work. Why do you think the teacher chose that have students share their work in that order?