Students made minimal reference to higher-level cognitive or metacognitive processing benefits of group work, departing from prior PBL research¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · 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is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on a source with no registered publication record (a web page, book or unpublished report). It is kept because 4 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

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q2 i? Unlike research reporting higher-level cognitive processing through group work, this study's students rarely described group work benefits in terms of higher-level cognitive or metacognitive processing. → Murray-Harvey 2013

Evidence¶

Murray-Harvey 2013¶

Murray-Harvey, R., Pourshafie, T., & Santos Reyes, W. (2013). What teacher education students learn about collaboration from problem-based learning. Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 1(1), 114-134. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1108330

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Discussion-section observation from the qualitative analysis of 122 students' written reflections. The authors state that "our students provided minimal reference to group work delivering benefits (or losses) in relation to higher level cognitive / metacognitive processing, using those terms.", a point of departure from Schmidt et al.'s review.

"our students provided minimal reference to group work delivering benefits (or losses) in relation to higher level cognitive / metacognitive processing, using those terms."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Metacognition — outcome: instruction changes it

Teacher education students in PBL identified valuing others' perspectives, interdependence, and learning about self as attitudes necessary for collaborative learning — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
Students described knowledge gained through PBL group work in terms of generation, application, and dissemination of knowledge, plus pedagogical knowledge for future teaching — related
Some GenAI tools can inhibit productive struggle by reducing cognitive effort (metacognitive laziness) — related

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