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Title | ||
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Analyzing collaborative knowledge construction: multiple methods for integrated understanding |
Abstract | ||
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Documenting collaborative knowledge construction is critical for research in computer-supported collaborative learning. Because this is a multifaceted phenomenon, mixed methods are necessary to construct a good understanding of collaborative interactions, otherwise there is a risk of being overly reductionistic. In this paper I use quantitative methods of verbal data analysis, qualitative analysis, and techniques of data representation to characterize two successful knowledge building interactions from a sociocultural perspective. In the first study, a computer simulation helped mediate the interaction and in the second, a student-constructed representation was an important mediator. A fine-grained turn-by-turn analysis of the group discussions was supplemented with qualitative analysis of larger units of dialogue. In addition, chronological representations of discourse features and tool-related activity were used in study 2 to gain an integrated understanding of how a student-generated representation mediated collaborative knowledge construction. It is only by mixing methods that collaborative knowledge construction can be well characterized. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2003 | 10.1016/j.compedu.2003.07.001 | Computers & Education |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
chronological representation,multiple method,integrated understanding,collaborative knowledge construction,successful knowledge building interaction,fine-grained turn-by-turn analysis,computer-supported collaborative learning,collaborative interaction,student-constructed representation,verbal data analysis,qualitative analysis,data representation,computer simulation,turn by turn,collaborative learning,computer mediated communication,interaction,data analysis,simulation,quantitative method,research methodology,cooperative learning | Sociocultural perspective,Collaborative learning,External Data Representation,Computer science,Knowledge building,Knowledge management,Reductionism,Computer-mediated communication,Cooperative learning,Problem-based learning | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
41 | 4 | 0360-1315 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
56 | 5.87 | 1 |
Authors | ||
1 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver | 1 | 208 | 40.77 |