Early identification of ineffective cooperative learning teams.
Cooperative learning has many pedagogical benefits. However, if the cooperative learning teams become ineffective, these benefits are lost. Accordingly, this study developed a computer-aided assessment method for identifying ineffective teams at their early stage of dysfunction by using the Mahalano...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 534 - 546 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2014
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