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Table 4 Number of interviews (out of the total number of interviews for each discipline) during which each reason was cited as favored or unfavored toward each exemplar GTA response

From: Responding to incorrect ideas: science graduate teaching assistants’ operationalization of error framing and undergraduate students’ perception

 

C1 (implicit and positive)

C2 (explicit and beneficial)

C3 (implicit and natural)

P1 (implicit and natural)

P2 (implicit and natural)

P3 (explicit and natural)

Favored

 Acknowledge sensemaking process

  

1/8

 

1/3

 

 Acknowledge idea as natural and sensible

4/8

 

5/8

3/3

2/3

1/3

 Acknowledge idea as common

1/8

    

2/3

 Acknowledge a learning opportunity

3/8

1/8

    

 Provide explanation to subject matter

2/8

 

2/8

1/3

 

1/3

 Being positive and conversational

3/8

 

1/8

1/3

  

Unfavored

 Start with a direct comment of idea being incorrect

 

3/8

    

 Focus on the error

 

4/8

    

 Use hedging

  

2/8

 

1/3

 

 Use negative words

     

1/3

 Being formal and unconcerned

 

4/8

    
  1. The total number of interviews for chemistry is 8, and the total number of interviews for physics is 3