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Social Networks and Academic Performance in Physics: Undergraduate Cooperation Enhances Ill-Structured Problem Elaboration and Inhibits Well-Structured Problem Solving

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Pulgar, Javier; Candia, Cristian; Leonardi, Paul M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020

For several decades, scholars have studied the role of cooperation and its outcomes in educational contexts. Yet we lack a complete understanding of how different instructional strategies impact the relationship between cooperation and learning. In this paper we present results from a field experiment with 82 first-year students in an introductory…

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