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ERIC Number: EJ958689
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Apr
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1556-1623
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Support of the Collaborative Inquiry Learning Process: Influence of Support on Task and Team Regulation
Saab, Nadira; van Joolingen, Wouter; van Hout-Wolters, Bernadette
Metacognition and Learning, v7 n1 p7-23 Apr 2012
Regulation of the learning process is an important condition for efficient and effective learning. In collaborative learning, students have to regulate their collaborative activities (team regulation) next to the regulation of their own learning process focused on the task at hand (task regulation). In this study, we investigate how support of collaborative inquiry learning can influence the use of regulative activities of students. Furthermore, we explore the possible relations between task regulation, team regulation and learning results. This study involves tenth-grade students who worked in pairs in a collaborative inquiry learning environment that was based on a computer simulation, Collisions, developed in the program SimQuest. Students of the same team worked on two different computers and communicated through chat. Chat logs of students from three different conditions are compared. Students in the first condition did not receive any support at all (Control condition). In the second condition, students received an instruction in effective communication, the RIDE rules (RIDE condition). In the third condition, students were, in addition to receiving the RIDE rules instruction, supported by the Collaborative Hypothesis Tool (CHT), which helped the students with formulating hypotheses together (CHT condition). The results show that students overall used more team regulation than task regulation. In the RIDE condition and the CHT condition, students regulated their team activities most often. Moreover, in the CHT condition the regulation of team activities was positively related to the learning results. We can conclude that different measures of support can enhance the use of team regulative activities, which in turn can lead to better learning results. (Contains 7 tables, 3 figures, and 1 footnote.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 10
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Language: English
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