Learning goals changed how collaboration scriptlets connected, even when selections looked similar
Frontiers in Psychology
Whether inducing learning goals changes the configuration of internal collaboration scriptlets during computer-supported collaborative learning. Goal induction did not change which kinds of scriptlets participants selected, but it produced different relations among scriptlets and was accompanied by greater knowledge about educational theories and evidence. The intervention and task support a condition-specific experimental contrast; they do not establish that every goal prompt will reorganize collaboration or improve outcomes in other settings.
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