Collective Intelligence in Student Teams: A Study With Chinese Primary School Students

• In Event: 35.082 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 35.082-22 - Advances in Cooperative Learning

Abstract

Though many studies have investigated the group process and performance in specific tasks, how to measure the collective intelligence (c factor) of group in order to predict how well a group will perform in different tasks is still in demand. This study utilized mixed-methods research to investigate the existence and emergence of the collective intelligence in student team learning with the sample of a public primary school. We find empirical evidence of this c factor explaining the student team performance in different complex tasks as a statistical factor. And in long-term student teams, factors about both social interaction (distributed communication) and individual contribution (leadership) are important for CI emerging in group process.

Author

• Zeyu Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong