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The Influence of Small Group Discussions on Early Adolescents' Social Perspective Taking

Wen, Ziye
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8544-3956
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587119941066016

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2020, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
The current study aims to promote the development of early adolescents’ social perspective taking (SPT) by addressing two challenges confronted in the realm of social-emotional learning intervention and SPT measurement. The first challenge revolved around how SPT can be cultivated and instructed using pedagogically effective approaches in complex and dynamic classroom settings. To address this challenge, the influence of collaborative small-group discussions on SPT assessed in fifth graders’ reflective essays were examined. A total of 250 students and six teachers from 12 fifth-grade classrooms in two public middle/intermediate schools participated in a pre-post control quasi-experimental study. The classrooms of students were assigned to one of three conditions: Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR), Read-Aloud (RA), or Regular Instruction (RI). Throughout the six-week intervention, CSR students read and discussed about complex issues arising from fiction stories in the context of English language arts classrooms. CSR students considered more social perspectives and provided more reasons to justify those perspectives in comparison with students in the RA and RI groups. The RA students generated more emotional reasons to justify their perspectives than RI students. To address the second challenge pertaining to developing a valid and reliable measure of SPT, a newly developed SPT coding scheme was designed and tested. The SPT coding scheme consisted of six main constructs, Perspective, SPT reasoning strategies, low-level SPT reasoning strategies, Personal Experience, Intertextual Comparison, and Coordination. The validity and reliability have been examined by correlating the SPT measures with students’ social competence and social acceptance at pre-test. Overall, the findings confirmed the validity of SPT coding scheme.
Tzu-Jung Lin (Advisor)
Michael Glassman (Committee Member)
95 p.
Educational Psychology
Social perspective taking; Small-group discussion; Assessment; Dialogic inquiry

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  • Wen, Z. (2020). The Influence of Small Group Discussions on Early Adolescents' Social Perspective Taking [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587119941066016

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wen, Ziye. The Influence of Small Group Discussions on Early Adolescents' Social Perspective Taking. 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587119941066016.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wen, Ziye. "The Influence of Small Group Discussions on Early Adolescents' Social Perspective Taking." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587119941066016

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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