The Discussion Project’s Classroom Discussion Survey
Existing research provides highly suggestive evidence that the use of classroom discussion improves students’ academic engagement, social integration, and academic achievement, all of which are important predictors of college completion. However, very little research thus far has attempted to investigate a direct connection between the use of classroom discussion pedagogy and student outcomes. In part, progress in this area is limited by the absence of high quality, scalable, valid, and reliable measures of the quality of classroom discussion.
Due to this need, The Discussion Project has developed a validated Classroom Discussion Survey. It has 14 validated indicators each of which is an attribute of high quality classroom discussion that falls into one of three categories: Attention to Others, Attention to Information, an Attention to Reason.
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The Discussion Project’s Classroom Discussion Survey is available to all participants of The Discussion Project and The Discussion Project Virtual. If you have taken The Discussion Project or The Discussion Project Virtual, please email discussion-project@education.wisc.edu to request access to the Classroom Discussion Survey.