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Nguyen, Kevin A.; Azevedo, Flávio S.; Papendieck, Adam – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
Background: We investigate the nature of planning the canoeing of rapids and its reasoning processes, while at the same time advancing a syncretic approach to cognitive and situative theories of learning. Building upon the work of Lucy Suchman, we examine how canoers plan to run rapids and how plans serve as resources for action. Methods: In…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Cooperative Planning, Aquatic Sports, Cognitive Processes
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Browning, Catherine A.; Harris, Celia B.; Van Bergen, Penny – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Prospective memory (PM) performance suffers when individuals collaborate, consistent with findings of "collaborative inhibition" in episodic recall. However, prior research indicates strong individual differences, such that some collaborative groups are more effective than others. To identify successful and unsuccessful collaborative…
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Processes
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Reynders, Gil; Suh, Erica; Cole, Renée S.; Sansom, Rebecca L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Laboratory coursework is widely considered to be an integral part of chemistry undergraduate degree programs, although its impact on students' chemistry knowledge is largely unsubstantiated. Laboratory experiences provide opportunities to learn skills beyond chemistry content knowledge, such as how to use scientific instrumentation appropriately,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, College Science, Undergraduate Study
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Curseu, Petru L.; Pluut, Helen – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Collaborative learning has important group-level benefits, yet most studies in higher education only focus on individual benefits of collaborative learning experiences. This study extends these insights by testing a model in which teamwork quality mediates the impact of several compositional differences (gender, nationality and teamwork expertise…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Higher Education, Gender Differences
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Myers, Scott A. – Communication Teacher, 2012
The purpose of this assessment was to examine whether differences exist between students who self-select their classroom work group members and students who are randomly assigned to their classroom work groups in terms of their use of organizational citizenship behaviors with their work group members; their commitment to, trust in, and relational…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Trust (Psychology), Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning
Best, Avril Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As advances in information and communication technologies give way to more innovative opportunities for teaching and learning at a distance, the need to provide supporting structures for online students similar to those offered to on-campus students is becoming more significant. Although a range of support services has been proposed in the past,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Medical Students, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement
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Perhamus, Lisa Michelle – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2010
This article provides an empirically grounded analysis of how children and adults kinesthetically recontextualize standardized, official health messages into personally meaningful, context-specific health knowledge. The in-depth interview research uses grounded theory methodology to analyze transcripts and a sociology of childhood framework to…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Health Promotion, Politics of Education, Food
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Xin, Cindy; Feenberg, Andrew – E-Learning, 2007
This article elaborates a model for understanding pedagogy in online educational forums. The model identifies four key components. Intellectual engagement describes the foreground cognitive processes of collaborative learning. Communication processes operating in the background accumulate an ever richer store of shared understandings that enable…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Communication, Motivation
Williams, David E. – 1990
Because of a multiplicity of approaches to small group argument, research in this area often needs to be summarized, condensed, and redirected. Researchers have identified the rational, cognitive and interactive components of argumentation, and have demonstrated that arguments can take several forms and fulfill a variety of functions. The result…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution, Group Dynamics
Gouran, Dennis S. – 1982
To provide a theoretical base for investigating the influence of inferential error on group decision making, current literature on both inferential error and decision making is reviewed and applied to the Watergate incident. Although groups tend to make fewer inferential errors because members' inferences are generally not biased in the same…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
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Defranco-Tommarello, Joanna; Deek, Fadi P. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2005
The experimental results of a collaborative problem solving and program development model that takes into consideration the cognitive and social activities that occur during software development is presented in this paper. This collaborative model is based on the Dual Common Model that focuses on individual cognitive aspects of problem solving and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Group Dynamics, Programming, Educational Technology
Broome, Benjamin J.; Keever, David B. – 1986
Noting that a distinction can be made between the different types of problems faced by managers in today's organizations, and that managers increasingly face problems of a more complex nature, this paper suggests that an interactive management approach is best for solving complicated problems. Following an introduction that distinguishes between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
Litterst, Judith K. – 1987
In keeping with the trend toward active, participative learning, observation projects for speech communication students can allow them to experiment with designing and carrying out a study of human communication. Students can be encouraged to look at the dynamics of a church congregation, a courtroom, a pre-game football huddle, or an office, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Collection, Educational Trends, Evaluation
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers