Learning partners converge strongly in their use of knowledge resources during collaboration¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2005 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? During the collaboration process, learning partners' use of knowledge resources converged strongly. → Frank Fischer 2005

Evidence¶

Frank Fischer 2005¶

Frank Fischer, Heinz Mandl. (2005). Knowledge Convergence in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: The Role of External Representation Tools. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 14(3), pp.405-441. https://telearn.hal.science/hal-00190855

q3 · i? · causal · r?

Experimental study varying external representation type and collaboration condition with 64 university students. The article reports that "learning partners converged strongly with respect to their use of resources during the collaboration process." No effect size is printed in the available text.

"Results showed that learning partners converged strongly with respect to their use of resources during the collaboration process."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Exploratory analyses find evidence for a relation between aspects of the collaborative process and knowledge convergence — related
• Outcome convergence after collaboration is low, and higher for application-oriented than factual knowledge — reports the opposite
• Learners converge toward an unknown other's assumptions after seeing the other's answers and confidence, reducing the distance between their own and the partner's answers — related
• Intersubjective understanding can be achieved through inter-animation of persistently opposed perspectives without convergence — reports the opposite
• Content-specific external representations increase appropriate resource use without increasing shared knowledge after collaboration — related