SITU use more than halved off-document web surfing during the OCW task¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Design limits · Maya Usher 2025: the intervention came bundled with another change (read from the study by two models, 2026-10-28)

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Experimental students spent 12% of time surfing the web versus 30% in control, a statistically significant difference; the article prints no standardised effect size for this finding. → Maya Usher 2025

Evidence¶

Maya Usher 2025¶

Maya Usher, Ido Roll, Orly Fuhrman, Ofra Amir. (2025). Supporting Coordination and Peer Editing in Students’ Online Collaborative Writing Processes. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-024-00450-w

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Same 62-student lab experiment; screen-capture coding of off-document behavior. Control group M = 30% (SD = 18) web surfing versus experimental M = 12%; the article reports the difference was "statistically significant". The printed r value is malformed (r = 44), so no standardised effect size is reported.

"This difference was statistically significant with U (32,30) = 235, Z = -3.47, p <.001, r = 44."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Undergraduate students in asynchronous OCW experience hesitation to edit peers' written products and coordination difficulties about next steps — related
• SITU use nearly doubled the time students spent on major edits to paragraphs written by peers — related
• SITU use reduced time to first major peer action by more than 50% — related
• SITU use doubled words added and multiplied fivefold words deleted from peers' paragraphs, and nearly doubled paragraphs receiving major edits — related