ANALYZING AND DESIGNING THE GROUP COGNITION EXPERIENCE

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERRY STAHL
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Group Cognition ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Groupware Design ◽  
The Individual ◽  
It Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Online Group

More than we realize it, knowledge is often constructed through interactions among people in small groups. The Internet, by allowing people to communicate globally in limitless combinations, has opened enormous opportunities for the creation of knowledge and understanding. A major barrier today is the poverty of adequate groupware. To design more powerful software that can facilitate the building of collaborative knowledge, we need to better understand the nature of group cognition — the processes whereby ideas are developed by small groups. We need to analyze interaction at both the individual and the group unit of analysis in order to understand the variety of processes that groupware should be supporting. This paper will look closely at an empirical example of an online group problem-solving experience and suggest implications for groupware design.

Learning Disabled Children's Peer Interactions during a Small-Group Problem-Solving Task

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanis Bryan ◽  
Mavis Donahue ◽  
Ruth Pearl
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Problem Solving Task

Learning disabled children in grades three through eight participated in a problem-solving task requiring group decision making. An analysis of group choices indicated that the independently made choices of learning disabled children were less likely to be among the group's final choices. Analyses of the children's communication patterns revealed that learning disabled children were less likely to disagree with classmates, less likely to try to argue for their choices, and more likely to agree with their peers. In addition, learning disabled children were found to be less likely to engage in “conversational housekeeping” than nondisabled children. Hence, learning disabled children were less persuasive than nondisabled children, apparently as a result of their assuming a submissive, deferential role when interacting with small groups of peers.

Cooperativeness vs Competitiveness: Initial Findings regarding Effects on the Performance of Individual and Group Problem-Solving

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa J. B. Kline ◽  
Yvonne P. Sell
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
Mixed Gender

Six mixed-gender groups ( ns = 3 to 5 each), comprised of either highly competitive (two groups), highly cooperative (two groups), or highly competitive and highly cooperative (two groups) individuals, participated. Participants first engaged in a cooperative problem-solving exercise and then completed an ill-structured problem, the Moon Survival Task, first on their own and then as a group. Analysis showed no differences in performance by individuals or groups; however, there was improvement in performance at the group level over the individual level, particularly for those individuals in the highly cooperative/highly competitive group. Findings do not support widely held assumptions about the utility of cooperativeness and detriment of competitiveness or of the possible advantage a cooperative rather than a competitive group may hold for women in particular.

scholarly journals Is Self-Sacrificial Competitive Altruism Primarily a Male Activity?

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 147470491201000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis T. McAndrew ◽  
Carin Perilloux
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Competitive Altruism ◽  
Male Activity ◽  
Monetary Success ◽  
Experimental Partner ◽  
Cold Stressor

This study explored the basis of self-sacrificial prosocial behavior in small groups. Seventy-eight undergraduates (39M, 39F) filled out a thirty-item personality scale and then participated in a “group problem-solving study” in which the monetary success of a three-person group depended upon one of its members volunteering to endure pain (a cold stressor test) and inconvenience (being soaked in a dunk tank). There were 13 groups consisting of two females and one male, and 13 groups consisting of two males and one female. Across groups, the behavior of the altruist was judged to be more costly, challenging, and important and he/she was liked better, rewarded with more money, and preferred as a future experimental partner. Groups containing two males showed more evidence of competition to become altruists than groups containing two females, and personality traits were more effective predictors of altruistic behavior in males than in females. We conclude that competition between males and “showing off” are key factors in triggering self-sacrificial altruistic behavior.

scholarly journals How Much "Group" is there in Online Group Work?

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Lowes
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Online Groups ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Online High School ◽  
Multiple Groups ◽  
Online Group

The ability to work in groups across time and space has become a frequent requirement for the workplace and is increasingly common in higher education, but there is a surprising lack of research on how online groups work. This research applies analytic approaches used in studies of face-to-face classroom “talk” to multiple groups in two online high school courses. We found two activities that demanded group problem-solving styles—one for deciding how to work as a group and a second for responding to the content of the assignment; that successful groups had directive leaders; and that most groups divided the labor, working in parallel rather than collaboratively.

Group Problem Solving

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 519-519
Author(s):  
MARVIN E. SHAW
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Group Problem Solving

PERBEDAAN PENINGKATAN KETERAMPILAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA PADA MATERI TERMOKIMIA MELALUI PEMBELAJARAN GROUP DAN INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM SOLVING

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
St Fatimah Azzahra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Problem ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Group Problem Solving

ABSTRACTThis research is aimed to know the differences increase critical thinking skills through learning group and individual problem solving in thermochemical material. This research uses a quasi-experimental design with nonequivalent control group design and study sample consisted of 103 students, divided into the first experimental (group problem solving) (35 students), the two group experimental (individual problem solving) (34 students). The collected through pretest-posttest. The analyzed with the Kruskal Wallis test, the results showed that the learning problem solving as a group or individually can improve students’ critical thinking skills. Statistical test there are significant differences in the students critical thinking skills thermochemical material between students who received group and individual problem solving. Critical thinking skills improvement with problem solving individual learning higher compared with group learning problem solving.Keywords: problem solving learning, critical thinking skillsABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa melalui pembelajaran group dan individual problem solving pada materi termokimia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode quasi experimen dengan desain Nonequivalent Control Group Design dan sampel penelitian ini terdiri dari 103 siswa yang terbagi ke dalam kelompok eksperimen pertama (pembelajaran group problem solving) (35 siswa), kelompok eksperimen kedua (pembelajaran individual problem solving) (34 siswa).Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui pretest-posttest. Data dianalisis dengan uji Kruskal Wallis Test, hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran problem solving secara group maupun secara individual dapat meningkatkan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa. Data uji statistik, terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa pada materi termokimia antara siswa yang mendapat pembelajaran group problem solving dan individual problem solving. Peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis dengan pembelajaran individual problem solving lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan pembelajaran group problem solving.Kata Kunci: Pembelajaran Problem Solving, Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis

Epistemic Free Riding

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Group Problem ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Division Of Cognitive Labor ◽  
Group Member

Free riding occurs in the practical domain when some action is rational for each group member to perform but such that when everyone performs that action, it is worse overall for everyone. Dunn argues that some surprising empirical evidence about group problem-solving reveals that groups will often face cases where it is epistemically best for each individual to believe one thing, even though this is ultimately epistemically worse for the group that each member believes in this way. Dunn’s work is thus an extension of work on the division of cognitive labor and ways that group inquiry might differ from individual inquiry.

scholarly journals Examining the Effects of Three Group-Level Metacognitive Scaffoldings on In-Service Teachers’ Knowledge Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 073563312110308
Author(s):  
Fan Ouyang ◽  
Si Chen ◽  
Yuqin Yang ◽  
Yunqing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Question Asking ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Metacognitive Scaffolding

Group-level metacognitive scaffolding is critical for productive knowledge building. However, previous research mainly focuses on the individual-level metacognitive scaffoldings in helping learners improve knowledge building, and little effort has been made to develop group-level metacognitive scaffolding (GMS) for knowledge building. This research designed three group-level metacognitive scaffoldings of general, task-oriented, and idea-oriented scaffoldings to facilitate in-service teachers’ knowledge building in small groups. A mixed method is used to examine the effects of the GMSs on groups’ knowledge building processes, performances, and perceptions. Results indicate a complication of the effects of GMSs on knowledge building. The idea-oriented scaffolding has potential to facilitate question-asking and perspective-proposing inquiry through peer interactions; the general scaffolding does not necessarily lessen teachers’ idea-centered explanation and elaboration on the individual level; the task-oriented scaffolding has the worst effect. Pedagogical and research implications are discussed to foster knowledge building with the support of GMSs.

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