Does our curriculum provide enough stimuli for asking questions and pursuing the small-group dialogue?
As these are regarded to hamper active meaningful learning, strategies that could improve the small-group dialogue are considered.
Improvement of the small-group dialogue is a likely mediating factor; however, this was not assessed systematically.
The quality of such small-group dialogue is crucial to the progress of a student with respect to all aspects of learning, i.e. knowledge, metacognitive skills and attitude [ 4].
As student-centered learning is moving towards participatory education [ 5, 6], endowing students with the role of co-creator of their education, it is a pre-requisite that students' input in the small-group dialogue increases.
Remediation is effective in small groups where dialogue is used for collaborative knowledge construction and social regulation.
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on initial journal responses, thoughtful participation in class discussions, cooperation in small groups, and written dialogues and response paragraph about controversial topics in evolutionary science.
When President Clinton was still in the White House in 1998, he invited Alexie and a small group of others to take part in a televised "Dialogue on Race" forum.
Detective Lee told a small group that his role was to try to keep a dialogue open so that the Police Department could "protect everybody's rights," and to try to keep things safe both in the park and at demonstrations.
A small group of us, who had especially come for a two day dialogue, shared a collective silence for about one hour.
The Online Patient Book© also contains an application for patient-to-patient dialogue, with each patient user being connected to a small group of other patient users.
