DCog model of debriefing as a coordination device for conversational remembering and distributed metacognition¶
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Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 1 study (1 qualitative),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study
Description¶
The article reconceptualises the three-phase simulation debriefing through distributed cognition, arguing that the debriefing conversation itself is the major coordination device. Its model holds that "debriefing conversations function as coordination devices for two key processes: conversational remembering and distributed metacognition", coordinating a cascade of representations from private memory to public speech. A coordination device is a structure or practice that constrains participants' actions to control how representations propagate within a distributed cognitive system. The model emerged abductively from cognitive-ethnographic analysis of one exemplary debriefing case.
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- A facilitator-led debriefing structured through consecutive phases, in which talk-in-interaction can manage the transformation of representations between media
Constraints¶
- The model was developed from a single exemplary case of a nursing simulation debriefing, chosen for analytical richness rather than statistical typicality
Target Learners¶
- second-year nursing students
- healthcare simulation participants
Learning Goals¶
- reflexive analysis of simulated clinical performance
- professional knowledge and judgment in acute care
Claims¶
- Debriefing description phase enacts conversational remembering that turns private recollections into a public, shared epistemic artifact [+W]
- Debriefing analysis and application phases operate as distributed metacognition on the publicly shared account [+W]
- The facilitator builds the shared account by shifting between narrator, mentor, and monitor roles and consolidating group consensus [+W]
Related Designs¶
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Key Sources¶
- Mads Solberg, Charlott Sellberg. (2025). Debriefing as epistemic engineering: conversational remembering and socially distributed metacognition in healthcare simulation. Instructional Science (2026) 54:7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-025-09760-5
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DCog model of debriefing as a coordination device for conversational remembering and distributed metacognition |
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The article reconceptualises the three-phase simulation debriefing through distributed cognition, arguing that the debriefing conversation itself is the major coordination device. |
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by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-18 |
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