Participation within teams was fairly equal in all conditions, with Gini coefficients close to zero and no significant between-condition differences¶
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q3 i? Only a non-significant Kruskal-Wallis test is printed for the between-condition Gini comparison, so no effect size is available for this finding. → Elise H. Eshuis 2019
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Elise H. Eshuis 2019¶
Elise H. Eshuis, Judith ter Vrugte, Anjo Anjewierden, Lars Bollen, Jakob Sikken, Ton de Jong. (2019). Improving the quality of vocational students' collaboration and knowledge acquisition through instruction and joint reflection. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2019) 14:53–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-019-09296-0
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Group-level Gini-coefficient analysis of utterance distribution within triads in the CSCL chat logs, computed per team and compared across the three conditions. The authors report coefficients were "relatively close to zero in all conditions" and a non-significant Kruskal-Wallis test.
"These coefficients turned out to be relatively close to zero in all conditions (instruction with tool: n =1 1 , M =. 1 1 ,SD = .08; instruction: n =1 1 , M = .10, SD = .04; control: n =1 3 , M =. 1 3 ,SD = .08), indicating that the distribution of participation in all conditions was fairly equal. A Kruskal-Wallis test revealed no significant differences between conditions (H(2) = .160, p =. 9 2 3 ) ."
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Participation within teams was fairly equal in all conditions, with Gini coefficients close to zero and no significant between-condition differences |
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Participation within teams was fairly equal in all conditions, with Gini coefficients close to zero and no significant between-condition differences |
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