A Polit Study on Exploring Students' Roles and Group Outcomes During Collaboration

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Abstract

Collaboration is important for individuals to thrive in education and professional workspaces. This work aims to explore the relationships between students’ roles demonstrated while working in groups and the associated collaboration outcomes through the lens of our Collaboration Conceptual Model. This study emerges from a larger research project that uses machine learning to assess collaboration using behavior and interaction patterns. Data for this study came from 15 middle school student groups as they worked on 12 problem-solving science tasks. We analyzed student groups’ task performances and the video annotations for all the groups and found that student roles and task complexity had a significant effect on specific collaboration outcomes. Significance and next steps of the work are also discussed.

Authors

• Hui Yang, SRI International
  Presenting Author

• Nonye M. Alozie, SRI International
  Non-Presenting Author

• Arif Rachmatullah, SRI International
  Non-Presenting Author