Cooperative storytelling tasks outperformed individual tasks across performance, autonomy, anxiety, and emotion measures¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Sixth graders working cooperatively outperformed those working individually on knowledge test scores, autonomy, anxiety, and emotion. → Yu-Ju Lan 2018

Evidence¶

Yu-Ju Lan 2018¶

Yu-Ju Lan. (2018). Technology enhanced learner ownership and learner autonomy through creation. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-018-9608-8

q2 · i? · causal · r1

The editorial reports, citing Liu, Huang, and Xu, a study with 55 sixth graders in which 28 completed individual tasks and the others cooperative tasks, collecting four kinds of data including knowledge test scores, language learner autonomy, foreign language classroom anxiety, and emotion. Cooperative students "outperformed those working individually in all the aforementioned elements"; no effect size is printed.

"It was found that the students working cooperatively outperformed those working individually in all the aforementioned elements"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it

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