6
CONSOLIDATING NEW KNOWLEDGETrusting new information
5
COMPARINGAPPREHENSION WITH OTHERS
Feedback from other students and teachers
Exploring additional connections
4
RELATING TO FACTS AND IDENTIFYING CONNECTIONSSurveying new knowledge Making own internal reflections
Identifying connections in given information
3
LEARNINGFACTS
Contemplating new facts and new information
2
REFLECTING ON PRESENTATION TECHNIQUEPedagogics Presentation skills Contact with audience
1
FACILITATING LEARNINGKeeping attention
Being active during presentations
Students’ approaches to learning from other students’ oral presentations
Sophie Grape, Staffan Jacobsson Svärd, Peter Jansson, Michael Österlund Department of physics and astronomy
Lessons learned
A phenomenographic study has been performed in order to investigate students’ approaches to learning from other students’ oral presentations in the context of a compulsory seminar on nuclear accidents in the third year of the nuclear
engineering programme at Uppsala University.
Phenomenographic approach
o Study based on seminar with
7-8 min student presentations
5 min discussion following each presentation o Semi-structured interviews with 8 of 12 students o Collect student quotes from the interviews to find
dimensions
o Interpret and categorise data in order to describe students’ approaches to learning from other students’
oral presentations
Identified categorisation
o Categories 1– 6 of learning approaches
o Each category is exemplified by dimensions
o Higher level categories include lower levels
Lessons learned
o Students learn very well from giving their own presentations because it requires much own work.
o Students tend not to accept knowledge gained from other students’ presentations as their own until it has been validated by the teacher in a follow-up discussion.
o The actions of the teacher during the discussion is very important for the students’ learning.
A student gives a presentation during the seminar.
In the analysis, citations from the interviews were grouped using an electronic noteboard.
Category 1
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