Creating An Active Classroom Without Cold Calling
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Pursuing Mastery
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Sean Dagony-Clark, Flatiron School’s Director of Educational Development, shares his thoughts on cold calling (hint: don’t do it) as well as great techniques for building an active but supportive learning environment in your classroom.
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Positive findings
Dallimore, E. J., Hertenstein, J. H., & Platt, M. B. (n.d.). Nonvoluntary class participation in graduate discussion courses: Effects of grading and cold calling. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Nonvoluntary+class+participation+in+graduate+discussion+courses%3A+Effects+of+grading+and+cold+calling&btnG=
Dallimore, E., H. Hertenstein, J., & Platt, M. (2013). Impact of Cold-Calling on Student Voluntary Participation. Journal of Management Education, 37, 305–341. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Impact+of+Cold-Calling+on+Student+Voluntary+Participation&btnG=
Negative findings
Antonios, Caitlin. (2017, May 16). How Cold-Calling Hinders Student Learning Experience. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from New University website: https://www.newuniversity.org/2017/05/16/how-cold-calling-hinders-student-learning-experience/
Carstens, B. A. (2015). The Effects of Voluntary versus Cold-calling Participation on Class Discussion and Exam Performance in Multiple Sections of an Educational Psychology Undergraduate Course (PhD diss., University of Tennessee). Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3402
Rocca, Kelly A. “Student Participation in the College Classroom: An Extended Multidisciplinary Literature Review.” Communication Education 59, no. 2 (April 2010): 185–213. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Student+Participation+in+the+College+Classroom%3A+An+Extended+Multidisciplinary+Literature+Review&btnG=
Informed opinions
Kohn, A. (2016, January 29). Your Hand’s Not Raised? Too Bad: I’m Calling on You Anyway. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from Alfie Kohn website: https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/hands/
Boucher, Nellie. “Tip 2: Warm Calling.” Accessed July 25, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://www.amherst.edu/offices/center-teaching-learning/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/amherst-college-teaching-tips/tip-2-warm-calling
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