Whether a CSCL script prompts transactive activities does not significantly moderate its effects on domain-specific knowledge, and for collaboration skills the difference runs opposite to the expected direction¶

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q3 i? The difference in effects on domain-specific knowledge between scripts prompting transactive activities and scripts not prompting them was not statistically significant; for collaboration skills, scripts not prompting transactive activities showed the larger effect (d = 2.15 vs. 0.62, from 3 and 9 effect sizes). → Freydis Vogel & Christof Wecker & Ingo Kollar & Frank Fischer 2016

Evidence¶

Freydis Vogel & Christof Wecker & Ingo Kollar & Frank Fischer 2016¶

Freydis Vogel & Christof Wecker & Ingo Kollar & Frank Fischer. (2016). Socio-Cognitive Scaffolding with Computer-Supported Collaboration Scripts: a Meta-Analysis. Educ Psychol Rev (2017) 29:477–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-016-9361-7

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Meta-analytic moderator analysis comparing scripts prompting transactive activities (d = 0.22 per Table 1) with scripts not prompting them (d = 0.05). No significant difference; post hoc power was only 8.2%. For collaboration skills the authors report the subgroup difference as "not statistically significant in the expected direction, Q(df = 1) = 22.37, p < .001": scripts not prompting transactive activities had the larger mean effect (d = 2.15, k = 3 effect sizes) than scripts prompting them (d = 0.62, k = 9 effect sizes), the opposite of the hypothesis.

"With respect to effects on domain-specific knowledge, the difference between the two subgroups was not statistically significant, Q(df = 1) = 0.28, p = .60. Post hoc power analysis indicated a statistical power of 8.2 %."

Discussion¶

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