TY - GEN
T1 - Emergent roles, collaboration, and conceptual outcomes for two eighth-grade groups in cscl science classes
AU - Dornfeld Tissenbaum, Catherine L.
AU - Gnesdilow, Dana
AU - Martin, Nicole D.
AU - Puntambekar, Sadhana
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the participating teacher and students. This research was funded by an NSF DRL grant #1418044 to the last author.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - When collaborating in groups, students may assume emergent roles as they interact over time. Emergent leadership can improve group functioning, but this depends on how leadership is supported by group members. We studied how roles emerged in two groups of eighth-graders participating in CSCL activities over a 12-week science unit. A leader emerged in each group, but through different processes. Group A showed greater distribution of contributions to decision-making and science talk than Group B, as well as greater conceptual gains on a content test. In contrast, Group B focused more on off-task talk than Group A. While our sample is too small to make causal claims, better distribution of contributions to talk and on-task participation seemed to positively impact collaboration and learning.
AB - When collaborating in groups, students may assume emergent roles as they interact over time. Emergent leadership can improve group functioning, but this depends on how leadership is supported by group members. We studied how roles emerged in two groups of eighth-graders participating in CSCL activities over a 12-week science unit. A leader emerged in each group, but through different processes. Group A showed greater distribution of contributions to decision-making and science talk than Group B, as well as greater conceptual gains on a content test. In contrast, Group B focused more on off-task talk than Group A. While our sample is too small to make causal claims, better distribution of contributions to talk and on-task participation seemed to positively impact collaboration and learning.
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U2 - 10.22318/cscl2019.672
DO - 10.22318/cscl2019.672
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85073390513
T3 - Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL
SP - 672
EP - 675
BT - A Wide Lens
A2 - Lund, Kristine
A2 - Niccolai, Gerald P.
A2 - Lavoue, Elise
A2 - Hmelo-Silver, Cindy
A2 - Gweon, Gahgene
A2 - Baker, Michael
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
T2 - 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings, CSCL 2019
Y2 - 17 June 2019 through 21 June 2019
ER -