The gaze synchronizations of listeners in group discussion to contribute the cooperative knowledge construction

2024 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K03233
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 10020:Educational psychology-related
• Research Institution: Takasaki City University of Economics
• Principal Investigator: Kinoshita Mayumi 高崎経済大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40404909)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
• Keywords: 集団討論 / ターンテイキング / 聞き手 / 視線配布 / 身体動作 / 同期性 / 質評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigates the quantitative and qualitative influence of listeners’ bodily behaviors during group discussions. Especially, the distribution of listeners’ gaze was hypothesized that its synchronization would facilitate turn-taking and enhance the overall quality of discussions. The findings of the study are as follows: a) Network analysis of turn-taking patterns demonstrated that metrics such as network density, reciprocity, and degree centrality serve as effective indicators for assessing the quality of group discussions, b) when the speaker changes from the current one to the next, a higher frequency of eye allocations were observed, c)in discussions where speech transitions were frequent, participants engaged in mutual knowledge sharing, which contributed to the emergence of new insights and a deeper level of understanding.

Free Research Field

教育心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では集団討論を対象に、どのような対話を目指すべきなのか、対話を目指すべき姿にするためにどう働きかければよいかといった、学びとしての対話について検討した。一連の研究の結果から、ネットワーク分析により発言者の入れ替わりの程度を数量的に提示できること、簡易な手続きよって身体動作を促し、それを合図として話者交替が円滑に進むこと、さらに、発言内容の精査により、発言者の頻繁な入れ替わりが生じた討論では、新たな概念生成の形で理解の深化に至ることが示唆された。現行の学習指導要領では対話を通じた学びが重視されているが、本研究はその実践に援用できる知見を示したと考えている。