The low-achievement groups demonstrated a higher proportion of behaviors including making plans (MP), negotiating the division of labor (ND), claiming partial understanding (CC), detecting errors (DC), and off-topic discussion (OT).
Whether it's an off-topic discussion, or whether it's a discussion about how to invest in organizational human capital, I can now look back on these notes and see what I've done with that knowledge, and how I can continue to use it.
Do not wander too far off the subject, but at the same time remember that occasional off-topic class discussions can be very interesting and informative for both the teacher and the class.
HackerNews, the news hub for hackers, enshrines in its guidelines that "most stories about politics" are off-topic for its discussions.
Consider analyzing the productive parts of your meetings versus the "down-times": late starts, off-topic or rambling discussions, waiting for missing information, and so forth.
Sometimes, students exchanged off-topic talk before they began discussion on the clicker question, paused in their discussion, or, in a few instances, became derailed in the middle of their discussion by a humorous remark or someone telling a story.
Based on the direct observations, the discussion went off-topic several times, and in the middle, it broke up to several sub-forums.
Some trolls, for instance, are trolling just by posting or commenting on something other than the subject under discussion, moving it off-topic.
If discussion went substantially off-topic, or one participant was dominating the conversation, the interviewer would reflect back to a previous topic and encourage other participants to contribute their views.
