Structuring asynchronous discussion groups: the impact of role assignment and self-assessment on students' levels of knowledge construction through social negotiation.

This article examines the impact of the introduction of roles and the added value of self-assessment on students' level of knowledge construction in online asynchronous discussions in a first-year university course in instructional sciences. Students' postings in 20 discussion groups were used as th...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 177 - 189
Autores principales: De Wever B, Van Keer H, Schellens T, Valcke M
Formato: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2009
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        affil: Department of Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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          Interpersonal Relations Education
          Learning Methods
          Self Assessment
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          Confidence Intervals
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          Data Analysis Software
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          Outcomes of Education
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      ab: This article examines the impact of the introduction of roles and the added value of self-assessment on students' level of knowledge construction in online asynchronous discussions in a first-year university course in instructional sciences. Students' postings in 20 discussion groups were used as the research data for this study. All messages, submitted during the 12-week discussion period and comprising four discussion themes of 3 weeks each, were analysed. Repeated-measures multilevel modeling was adopted to analyse the data from the content analysis. The results point at a significant positive impact of assigning roles to students. However, this positive impact depends on the moment of the introduction of the roles. Higher levels of social knowledge construction were found in discussion groups where roles were introduced right at the start of the discussions and faded out towards the end. The results further indicate that self-assessment has no significant added value.
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