Awareness visualizations of shared task perception improved reported strategy success and equalized expected effectiveness of planning and teamwork strategies¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Without awareness visualizations, individuals rated planning as more problematic and encountered more challenges. → Cress 2018 q2 i? Groups with visualizations reported higher strategy success and expected planning and teamwork strategies to be equally effective. → Cress 2018 (2)

Evidence¶

Cress 2018¶

Cress, U., Stahl, G., Rose, C., Law, N., & Ludvigsen, S. (2018). Forming social systems by coupling minds at different levels of cognition: Design, tools, and research methods. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 13, 235–240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-018-9284-z

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Editorial summary of Hadwin, Bakhtiar, and Miller's study of scripting shared task perception in online collaboration, where standardized answers about individual task perceptions feed an awareness visualization summarizing perceptions across group members.

"The study showed that without these kinds of visualizations, individuals rated planning as more problematic, and they encountered more challenges."

Cress 2018 (2)¶

Cress, U., Stahl, G., Rose, C., Law, N., & Ludvigsen, S. (2018). Forming social systems by coupling minds at different levels of cognition: Design, tools, and research methods. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 13, 235–240. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-018-9284-z

q2 · i? · review · r2

In the same study, groups given the awareness visualization differed from groups without it: they reported higher strategy success and "expected planning and teamwork strategies to be equally effective"; pathway analysis traced transitions from challenge to strategy selection to enactment.

"This group reported higher levels of success with their strategies and it expected both planning and teamwork strategies to be equally effective."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Across the special issue, all four levels of coupling minds correlate with task performance — related
• Homogeneous problem perceptions predict better regulation outcomes in collaborative groups — a broader claim this one bears on
• Awareness of heterogeneous problem perceptions does not by itself predict successful regulation — related
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• Visualization support at the planning phase helped collaborating groups report more effective planning and teamwork strategies than groups without it — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)