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An Investigation of Collaboration Processes in an Online Course: How Do Small Groups Develop over Time?
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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
Some Models for Individual-Group Comparisions and Group Behavior
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Fienberg, Stephen E.; Larntz, F. Kinley, Jr. – Psychometrika, 1971
The Lorge-Solomon approach to group problem solving situations and its extensions to trichotomous response situations are examined by use of the maximum likelihood methods. (DG)
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Group Behavior, Models, Nonparametric Statistics
Social Decision Schemes of the Same Dyads and Tetrads on Two Different Disjunctive Tasks. Educational Reports Umea, No. 24.
Egerbladh, Thor – 1981
The purposes of this study were: (1) to test several social decision schemes to obtain plausible explanations of different group processes in solving different disjunctive tasks; and (2) to study both dyads and tetrads solving a eureka and a non-eureka disjunctive task. Social decision schemes theory assumes that a group decision is a joint…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
Solution of Problems which Involve a Difference between an Individual's Behavior and Expectations.
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Hatch, Charles W. – Education, 1984
Presents model aimed at resolution of discrepancies between group objectives and individual behavior under certain conditions using step-by-step analysis based on game theory. May be applied by administrators or managers to educational, industrial, or bureaucratic situations where these "people problems" are present. (NEC)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Game Theory
Scientific Gaming; The Development and Use of Free-Form Scenarios
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Brewer, Garry D. – Simulation and Games, 1978
Discusses basic weaknesses and limitations of models, simulations, gaming, and other analytical and behavioral approaches to simplifying reality for understanding. The development and use of scenarios and the model builder's basic conceptions of the aspects of reality being analyzed are described for a one-person, computer-interactive, quasi-rigid…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Game Theory, Group Behavior, Models
Ad Hoc Planning Management (A Practical Guide for Administrators and Managers).
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Choi, Jae W.; Lyons, Paul R. – 1974
The model for planning groups presented in this paper is an attempt to provide varying levels of organizational leaders with a device to increase planning efficiency and effectiveness. The planning process is highlighted as it might be viewed through the eyes of the individual responsible for completion of the planning task. The major emphasis is…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
The Cyclical Tradition: A Study of Phases and Cycles in Four Models of Group Development.
McKinley, John – 1979
A study analyzed and compared four selected models in the cyclical tradition of group development as a basis for identifying possible issues and implications for future theory building. The theorists whose models were examined were Leland Bradford, Jack Gibb, William Schutz, and Theodore Mills. Both historical and conceptual perspectives of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Development