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Hu, Xiaoyong; He, Wei; Chiu, Thomas K. F.; Zhao, Li – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI), seen as an engineering domain, has been introduced into school education, but its pedagogy remains unclear. In general, group learning has been applied as a primary form of instruction in hands-on engineering activities. This learning approach is more common in higher education. School students are less…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Artificial Intelligence, Group Activities, Group Behavior
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Oshima, Jun; Oshima, Ritsuko; Fujita, Wataru – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2018
The purpose of this study was to propose a mixed-methods approach to analyzing shared epistemic agency in jigsaw instruction from multiple temporal perspectives, and to evaluate its effectiveness by examining actual datasets. We employed a combination of socio-semantic network analysis (SSNA) and in-depth dialogical discourse analysis as a…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Cooperative Learning, Network Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Hendry, Gillian; Wiggins, Sally; Anderson, Tony – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Research has shown that educators may be reluctant to implement group work in their teaching due to concerns about students partaking in off-task behaviours. However, such off-task interactions have been shown to promote motivation, trust, and rapport-building. This paper details a study in which student groups were video recorded as they engaged…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Problem Based Learning, Tutorial Programs, Teaching Methods
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Jahng, Namsook – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This study investigated communication patterns and behavior in problem-solving groups in a graduate online course. An inductive qualitative analysis method was employed to analyze 732 messages that were retrieved from small group forums. The current study identified a temporal pattern of group development was in comparison with existing…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Problem Solving, Models, Group Behavior
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Friesen, Norm – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
Genre analysis, the investigation of typified communicative actions arising in recurrent situations, has been developed to study information use and interchange online, in businesses and in other organizations. As such, it holds out promise for the investigation of similarly typified communicative actions and situations in CSCL contexts. This…
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Content Analysis, Internet, Discourse Analysis
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Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Barrows, Howard S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
This article describes a detailed analysis of knowledge building in a problem-based learning group. Knowledge building involves increasing the collective knowledge of a group through social discourse. For knowledge building to occur in the classroom, the teacher needs to create opportunities for constructive discourse in order to support student…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Inquiry, Group Behavior