Target the development of collaborative diagnostic activities with adaptive collaboration scripts and group awareness tools¶

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Evidence · 6 claims (5 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 associational), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The article recommends that training in knowledge-rich domains focus on developing collaborative diagnostic activities, and proposes instructional supports to raise their quality. It notes that "providing learners with an adaptive collaboration script has been shown to improve evidence sharing quality and promote the internalization of collaboration scripts", and that "group awareness tools, such as shared concept maps, should be considered to compensate for deficits in one's collaboration knowledge". The authors also stress that what is required for high-quality CDAs remains an open question and that instructional support may be better domain-specific than domain-general.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Supports should target specific CDAs, since effects of CDAs differ by outcome facet

Constraints¶

• The article states there is still a need for further research on how such instructional support might look

Target Learners¶

• medical students and learners in knowledge-rich professional domains

Target Learning Goals¶

• high-quality evidence elicitation, evidence sharing, and collaboration knowledge development

Affordances¶

• Cdr Collaborative Diagnostic Reasoning Model

Claims¶

• Collaboration knowledge is positively and consistently related to the quality of evidence sharing across all three studies [+W]
• Content knowledge is positively related to the quality of evidence elicitation and evidence sharing, but not to hypotheses sharing [+W]
• Evidence elicitation relates positively to diagnostic accuracy and diagnostic efficiency [+W]
• Evidence sharing relates positively to diagnostic justification quality [+W]
• Hypotheses sharing relates positively to diagnostic justification and diagnostic efficiency [+W]
• Social skills are positively related only to evidence elicitation quality, with inconsistent support across studies [~W]

Related Strategies¶

• Combine scripting with awareness measures to tailor collaboration scripts to the dyad
• Use a collaboration script structured by scientific-reasoning phases to prompt sharing, eliciting, and negotiating diagnostic information

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Laura Brandl, Matthias Stadler, Constanze Richters, Anika Radkowitsch, Martin R. Fischer, Ralf Schmidmaier, Frank Fischer. (2024). Collaborative Problem-Solving in Knowledge-Rich Domains: A Multi-Study Structural Equation Model. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-024-09425-4