Table 2 Negotiation or discussion moves
From: Negotiated learner modelling to maintain today’s learner models
Discussion move | Breakdown | Examples |
|---|---|---|
Statement (or explanation) | Beliefs | I believe that my subtraction is quite weak. |
Evidence for beliefs | I have forgotten how to ‘borrow’. | |
Reasoning/explanation | This topic (multiplication) is easier than what you were trying before (division). | |
Changes made/being made to model | You are trying to reduce my belief from high to medium. | |
Assessment criteria | High grammatical accuracy is evidenced by use of a range of structures, with only occasional slips. | |
Agree (accept) | Beliefs | I agree with your assessment of me (strong). |
Evidence: artefact/result | I agree that my sentences were right. | |
Evidence: reasoning | I agree that the activities leading to this value were easier. | |
Compromise | I accept the compromise between our beliefs (medium). | |
Disagree | Beliefs | I disagree that my understanding is strong. |
Evidence: artefact/result | I disagree because my essay was not so good. | |
Evidence: reasoning | I disagree because your answers to the last two exercises were nearly all correct, and these were difficult questions. | |
Compromise | I do not accept the compromise between our beliefs. | |
Challenge | Beliefs | I want to change my knowledge of subtraction to medium. |
Evidence: artefact/result | I have now done some more advanced homework. | |
Evidence: reasoning | I think that the problem was too easy to be able to distinguish between high and medium competency. | |
Validity of data (for purpose) | Problem 18 did not require you to use the skill we are discussing. | |
Request info | Beliefs | Do you think that the Earth orbits the Sun? |
Evidence: artefact/result | What is the evidence for your belief that my verb declensions are not good? | |
Evidence: reasoning | Although your last answers were good, the examples were available. Without the examples, you found some of the questions tricky. | |
Assessment criteria | What do I need to demonstrate to advance to the next stage of this topic? | |
Move on | Interaction to gain more data | As we disagree, let’s look at multiplication of small numbers again. |
Switch to a topic/concept that is not affected by the disagreement in the learner model | Let’s look at Prolog lists for a while. |