Primary students' wiki negotiation contains collaboration and reasoning keywords distributed throughout the interaction¶

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q2 i? Concordance analysis of both groups' negotiation spaces showed keywords associated with collaboration and reasoning were evenly distributed throughout the negotiation process, taken as an indicator of collaboration. → Pifarré 2011

Evidence¶

Pifarré 2011¶

Pifarré, M. & Kleine Staarman, J. (2011). Wiki-supported collaborative learning in primary education: How a dialogic space is created for thinking together. International Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 6(2), 187-205. https://www.springer.com/journal/11412

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Computer-based concordance analysis (Wordsmith Tools) of the negotiation spaces of two groups of six students, counting collaboration and reasoning words in Catalan. The authors report the keywords were "evenly distributed throughout the negotiation process" (G1: 802 words; G2: 994 words).

"This analysis confirms that students use key words associated with collaboration and group reasoning processes in their wiki negotiation process, This data can be seen as an indicator that the students were indeed collaborating and discussing their contribution during all their collaborative work in the wiki environment."

Discussion¶

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