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Socio-Cognitive Scaffolding with Computer-Supported Collaboration Scripts: a Meta-Analysis
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Scripts for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) offer socio-cognitive scaffolding for learners to engage in collaborative activities that are considered beneficial for learning. Yet, CSCL scripts are often criticized for hampering naturally emerging collaboration. Research on the effectiveness of CSCL scripts has shown divergent results. This article reports a meta-analysis about the effects of CSCL scripts on domain-specific knowledge and collaboration skills. Results indicate that CSCL scripts as a kind of socio-cognitive scaffolding can enhance learning outcomes substantially. Learning with CSCL scripts leads to a small positive effect on domain-specific knowledge ( d = 0.20) and a large positive effect on collaboration skills ( d = 0.95) compared to unstructured CSCL. Further analyses reveal that CSCL scripts are particularly effective for domain-specific learning when they prompt transactive activities (i.e., activities in which a learner’s reasoning builds on the contribution of a learning partner) and when they are combined with additional content-specific scaffolding (worked examples, concept maps, etc.). Future research on CSCL scripts should include measures of learners’ internal scripts (i.e., prior collaboration skills) and the transactivity of the actual learning process.
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- Authors
- Vogel, F., Wecker, C., Kollar, I., & Fischer, F.
- Affiliations
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- University of Augsburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Vogel, Freydis
- Venue
- Educational Psychology Review
- Published
- 2016-03-23
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 477-511
- ISSN
- 1040-726X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-336X
- OpenAlex
- W2305855202
- Cited by
- 278
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- 74
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- 3.42
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE) (FI 792/7-1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Keywords
- computer-supported collaborative learning, cooperative script, domain knowledge, collaboration skills, worked examples, concept maps, learning outcomes
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