Jr. Howard et R. Baird, The consolidation of responsibility and students' definitions of situationin the mixed-age college classroom, J HIGH EDUC, 71(6), 2000, pp. 700
This study tests for the norm of the consolidation of responsibility for pa
rticipation in discussion in the mixed-age college classroom. Students who
accept and reject this responsibility are identified through observation. T
he definitions of the college classroom employed by each group of students
are contrasted through interviews and survey.