Socio-Metacognitive Processes in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

• In Event: 34.033 - Student Learning and Thinking Processes in the Design of Learning Environments

Abstract

This study explores the dynamics between socio-metacognitive communication patterns and collaborative processes, as students engage in collaborative discussions about course concepts. Building upon a series of studies that aimed to design and validate an intervention to help students develop collaborative competencies at the group level, the study aimed to map how socio-metacognitive sense-making patterns are associated with the collaboration quality, by comparing the patterns for low, intermediate and high performing teams. Discussion and after-discussion reflection transcripts of 12 teams over five sessions were analyzed and assessed, using previously developed collaborative discourse rubric and sense-making coding construct. The results suggested that there is a significant correlation between the amount of sense-making acts and the quality of the collaborative discourse.

Authors

• Tugce Aldemir, The Pennsylvania State University

• Marcela Borge, The Pennsylvania State University