Type of interdependence shifts the nature of interactions: no-structure groups show the most cognitive interactions, role groups the most group processing, and reward groups the most off-task behavior¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2003 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Significant differences in frequencies of cognitive, group process, and off task interactions occurred among the four treatment conditions. → Brewer 2003 q3 i? Role-plus-reward groups had the highest total number of interactions, significantly more than reward-only or no-interdependence groups. → Brewer 2003 (2)

Evidence¶

Brewer 2003¶

Brewer, S. A., & Klein, J. D. (2003). Small Group Learning in an Online Asynchronous Environment. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED484997

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Qualitative categorization of interaction behaviors from newsgroup transcripts of 40 triad learning teams (10 triads per treatment), inter-rater agreement .91; differences significant at p < .01 per Table 3. No effect size printed.

"Groups with no structured interdependence had the highest number of cognitive interactions, groups with role interdependence had the highest number of group process interactions, and groups with reward interdependence had highest number of off task interactions."

Brewer 2003 (2)¶

Brewer, S. A., & Klein, J. D. (2003). Small Group Learning in an Online Asynchronous Environment. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED484997

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Interaction quantity analysis of transcript data from the same 40 triads; combining role and reward interdependence produced more interactions than either reward alone or no structure. No effect size printed.

"individual participants in groups with role -plus -reward interdependence had the highest number of interactions, statistically significant compared to those in groups with only reward interdependence or no structured interdependence."

Discussion¶

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