| Webb, N.M., Troper, J.D., & Fall, R. (1995). Constructive activity and learning in collaborative small groups. |
.... shown that both competitive and collaborative discussion can motivate students (Cohen 1995, Johnson and Johnson 1983, Slavin 1983) Research suggests that students learn more when the discussion group holds heterogeneous ideas and when students can both ask questions and give answers to questions (Webb 1995). In online discussion, more students participate if the group is heterogeneous, comes from different classrooms, runs for about four weeks and has a size of about 15 students (Hsi 1997) To encourage collaborative online discussion using SpeakEasy we randomly selected students to form groups of ....
....of anonymous comments and, a low number of unique comments read. Overall, however, only days loggedin correlated with average discussion post test score. Research suggests that students learn more when they either ask or answer questions and are disadvantaged when their questions go unanswered (Webb 1995). When students log on to a discussion less frequently they reduce their opportunities to get answers to their questions because they do not return to read answers that might be posted. There were significant differences between discussion groups even after the main effect of condition was ....
WEBB, N. (1995) Constructive activity and learning in collaborative small groups. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87 (3), 406-423.
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Webb, N.M., Troper, J.D., & Fall, R. (1995). Constructive activity and learning in collaborative small groups.
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Webb, N. M., Troper, J. D. and Fall, R. (1995). Constructive activity and learning in collaborative small groups. Journal of Educational Psychology, 87(3), pp. 406-423.
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Webb N. Constructive Activity and Learning in Collaborative Small Groups. Educational Psychology 1995; 87(3); 406-423
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