Fostering collaborative knowledge construction with visualization tools

Fischer, Frank; Bruhn, Johannes; Gräsel, Cornelia und Mandl, Heinz (2002): Fostering collaborative knowledge construction with visualization tools. In: Learning and Instruction, Bd. 12, Nr. 2: S. 213-232

Abstract

This study investigates to what extent collaborative knowledge construction can be fostered by providing students with visualization tools as structural support. Thirty-two students of Educational Psychology took part in the study. The students were subdivided into dyads and asked to solve a case problem of their learning domain under one of two conditions: 1) with content-specific visualization 2) with content-unspecific visualization. Results show that by being provided with a content-specific visualization tool, both the process and the outcome of the cooperative effort improved. More specifically, dyads under that condition referred to more adequate concepts, risked more conflicts, and were more successful in integrating prior knowledge into the collaborative solution. Moreover, those learning partners had a more similar individual learning outcome.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: Cooperative learning; Discourse analysis; Collaborative knowledge construction; Collaborative concept mapping; Collaborative learning
• Fakultät: Psychologie und Pädagogik > Department Psychologie > Empirische Pädagogik und Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 370 Bildung und Erziehung
• Sprache: Englisch