Neither a group awareness tool alone nor combined with adaptive prompts significantly changed the equality of participation in university online collaboration¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Kruskal-Wallis tests found no significant difference in gini-coefficient equality of participation between control, GAT, and GAT + Prompt conditions at the end of either collaborative task, so H1 was rejected. → Strauß 2021

Evidence¶

Strauß 2021¶

Strauß, S., & Rummel, N. (2021). Promoting regulation of equal participation in online collaboration by combining a group awareness tool and adaptive prompts. But does it even matter? International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (2021) 16:67–104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-021-09340-y

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Field experiment in a university online course: 61 students in 16 groups (topic #3) and 54 students in 13 groups (topic #4), randomly assigned to control, GAT, or GAT + Prompt. The Kruskal-Wallis test "revealed no significant difference between the conditions in terms of equality of participation"; H1 was rejected. Equivalence was not tested.

"However, a Kruskal-Wallis test revealed no significant difference between the conditions in terms of equality of participation at the end of topic #3 H(2) = 0.463, p > 0.05, or topic #4 H(2) = 0.91, p > 0.05."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• More unequal distribution of participation in online collaboration groups is associated with lower satisfaction with the collaboration
• Tentative evidence that groups receiving the collaboration support more often achieved near-equal participation, since most groups failing the gini criterion were controls — reports the opposite
• Participation within teams was fairly equal in all conditions, with Gini coefficients close to zero and no significant between-condition differences — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)