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Lusher, Dean; Robins, Garry; Kremer, Peter – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2010
This article reviews how current social network analysis might be used to investigate individual and group behavior in sporting teams. Social network analysis methods permit researchers to explore social relations between team members and their individual-level qualities simultaneously. As such, social network analysis can be seen as augmenting…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Network Analysis, Group Behavior, Social Networks
Hausstatter, Rune Sarromaa; Nordkvelle, Yngve Troye – Online Submission, 2007
Current distance education benefits greatly from educational software that makes group work possible for students who are separated in time and space. However, some students prefer distance education because they can work on their own. This paper explores how students react to expectations on behalf of the course provider to do their assignments…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Group Behavior
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Overdijk, Maarten; van Diggelen, Wouter – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2008
The use and effects of a CSCL-tool are not always predictable from the properties of the tool alone, but depend on how that tool is appropriated. This paper presents the findings from a case study about the appropriation of a graphical shared workspace. When students are presented with a new tool they may encounter competing constraints and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Case Studies, Persuasive Discourse, Educational Technology
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Buder, Jurgen; Bodemer, Daniel – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2008
This paper describes the development of augmented group awareness tools that take mutual user ratings of their online discussion contributions as input, aggregate these data, and visually feed these data back to the members in real time, thereby informing participants about how the group as a whole perceives their contributions. A specific group…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Feedback (Response), Vignettes, Physics
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Fisher, Eunice – Language and Education, 1993
The spoken language occurring when primary school children work in groups at the computer was examined. Findings suggest that discourse accompanying highly structured software conforms well to the initiation/response/follow-up (IRF) structure, with the computer often taking the initiating role. The more open-ended the program, the more…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Nicholson, Julie; Gelpi, Adrienne; Sulzby, Elizabeth; Young, Shannon – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1998
Used ethnographic methods to examine, over six months, the relationship between gender and open-ended computer software use to compose stories for 36 first graders. Found that females in mixed-gender groups were more likely to have their competence or work laughed at or criticized than when working alone or in all-female groups. Females used…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation