The Effect of Technology-Supported Collaborative Learning on Students' Achievement and Engagement

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Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of dynamic web technologies supported collaborative learning on students’ achievement and engagement. A pretest-posttest quasi experimental design was utilized. 61 students from a vocational college in Turkey participated to the study. Students in the experiment group worked in a learning environment supported by dynamic web technologies in order to solve ill-structured computer programming problems while students in the control group were taught the course with the traditional methods such as lecturing and demonstration. The results indicated that experiment group had higher scores than control group in terms of achievement and collaborative learning engagement while there was no significant difference in terms of engagement of active learning activities between groups.

Authors

• Erhan Unal, Afyon Kocatepe University

• Hasan Cakir, Gazi University