Scaffolding Students' Adoption of Norms for Peer Critique

This study aims to better understand norms that are potentially relevant for student engagement in peer critique within the modeling context.By analyzing multiple data from a 5 th /6 th grade classroom, we identified social and socioscientific norms within small groups.Students demonstrated productive within-group engagement in peer critique governed by norms, while encountering some difficulty with adopting certain socioscientific norms.