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| Title |
Learning in friendship groups: developing students’ conceptual understanding through social interaction
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01031 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carl Senior, Chris Howard |
| Abstract |
The role that student friendship groups play in learning was investigated here. Employing a critical realist design, two focus groups on undergraduates were conducted to explore their experience of studying. Data from the "case-by-case" analysis suggested student-to-student friendships produced social contexts which facilitated conceptual understanding through discussion, explanation, and application to "real life" contemporary issues. However, the students did not conceive this as a learning experience or suggest the function of their friendships involved learning. These data therefore challenge the perspective that student groups in higher education are formed and regulated for the primary function of learning. Given these findings, further research is needed to assess the role student friendships play in developing disciplinary conceptual understanding. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 54% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 77% |
| Scientists | 3 | 23% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 60 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 55 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 9 | 15% |
| Unknown | 17 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 19 | 32% |
| Psychology | 4 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 3% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 20% |
| Unknown | 18 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 September 2019.
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