Two transactivity-supporting scripts each help dyads, but combining them appears to interfere¶

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q2 i? In a laboratory experiment with dyads of different expertise, an expertise-awareness script and an argument-analysis script each seemed beneficial for joint and individual problem solutions, but in combination the scripts apparently got in each other's way. → Gerry Stahl 2013

Evidence¶

Gerry Stahl 2013¶

Gerry Stahl. (2013). Transactive discourse in CSCL. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 8:145–147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-013-9171-6

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Editorial summary of Noroozi, Teasley, Biemans, Weinberger and Mulder's laboratory experiment scripting dyad interactions with different expertise. The editorial reports the scripts "seems to be beneficial" individually but interfere when combined; no statistics are printed here.

"each of the scripts— designed to support one aspect of transactivity — seems to be beneficial, but when combined the scripts apparently get in each other 's way."

Discussion¶

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