Publications and Research Tools
Al-Adeimi, S., Reisman, A., Donovan, M.S., Duhaylongsod, L., Murphy, P.K., Osborne, J., Snow, C.E. (2022, April 21-26). Academically Productive Talk: Similarities and Differences Among Experts Across Content Areas [Conference presentation]. AERA 2022 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States.
Donovan, M.S., Snow, C.E. (2023, May 9). Motivating Students to Learn: Prioritizing Classroom Discourse [Conference presentation]. Center for the Success of English Learners 2023 Inaugural In-Person Conference, Washington, DC, United States.
Duhaylongsod, L., Al-Adeimi, S., & Reisman, A. (2023). Talk is literacy. ASCD, 81(4).
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/talk-is-literacy
Three discussion analysis tools were utilized to code the videos in this project.
Quality Talk: Murphy, P. K., Greene, J. A., Firetto, C. M., & Butler, A. M. (2017). Analyzing the talk in Quality Talk discussions: A coding manual. doi.org/10.18113/S1XW64
Low Inference Discourse Observation Instrument:
LIDO Manual: Al-Adeimi, S., & O’Connor, C. (2017). Low-Inference Discourse Observation (LIDO) Coding Manual. Boston University, Boston, MA.
LIDO Validation Paper: LaRusso, M., Al-Adeimi, S., Harbaugh, A., Kim, H. Y., & O'Connor, C. Capturing classroom talk with the Low Inference Discourse Observation tool: A validation study. (2023). Journal of Early Adolescence, 0(0), 1-31.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316231182291
Science Discourse Instrument:
https://ipt.lawrencehallofscience.org/classroom-argumentation/research-instruments/video-analysis-using-the-sdi/
Video Libary
Select video footage accompanies most pages on this website to illustrate important aspects of Academically Productive Talk. More complete and annotated classroom footage is also available in the Video Library.
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Teacher Tip Deck
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The Academically Productive Talk Project was made possible by a grant from the Spencer Foundation #202000131. The views expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Spencer Foundation.
