Notes

Discussion Session: Group Assessment

(Moderated by Beverly Woolf)

Very little work has been done in this area of research and few research conclusions are present (even the researchers at the ITS conference did not know of significant bodies of work in the area)

• Individual vs Group Assessments
• Task vs Project Assessments
• Measurement of Performance/Learning/Skill Acquisition
• Identification of group roles, group formation/stages
• Discussion of the "learning in passing" (french translation?) concept, where it is assumed that people in groups are learning if the group is learning
• Discussion of team learning performance measurement by information diffusion (measuring informational components, and their movement
• Discussion of the Hole in the Wall (TED Talk), where a computer was placed in third world countries, and groups were formed about learning concepts
• Some unanswered research questions:
  • Can group roles (leader, note taker, etc.) be predicted/assessed via machine learning methods?
  • Can group stages be evaluated (forming, norming, etc.)
  • Does the establishment of these have any meaning, learning effect wise (if you create a 'balanced' group of one leader, one notetaker, etc., does it help?)?

Discussion Session: Tools

(Moderated by Jihie Kim)

Tools; interactive tabletops to collaboration In classroom. Capturing tools, visualizations. Problem; how can my tool be used later on by other authors? How can tools be combined?

What are the common things a table top have? What can be generalized? Simple example, two groups that have a discussion with one another. What kind of activity is measured? How relevant is the activity? How equal is the work distributed within the group. What kind of questions are proposed within group discussion?

Tool; check tool that checks specific activity on svn, gives insights in group activity.

Difference between group work with roles, and collaborative work, in which everyones works together on 1 task, rather than everyone having his or her personal role.

Tools, how can tools be intergrated with each other. How can hey talk to each other. Possible solution; standardize tools. Or change the management, they way we think and build tools. Essentials idea; a homogenious setup, the way you interact with the system is very important.

Tool intergration is a problem, the combination of tools just leads to a new tool, which does no tackle the problem necessarily.

Is there an abstract state we can make in student group behaviour? Dependancy is really of importance.

Authoring tools; authoring scenario's and knowledge, does is compare, or is it correct with existing knowledge?

Discussion Session: Strategies

(Moderated by Art Graesser)

*Cooperation of leaders and roles

Symmetrical vs. asymmetrical

All equal but different perspective

Learning Types-->strategies of collaboration

specialized k , perspectives

Task leaders

Everybody see role

* Teachers training and student learning

Difficulty of training teacher

Value added for students

Students need model of interactions

social dimensions of education

Modeling good social interaction

Rating contributions--points on quantity and quality

* different perspective, tension -> produce better solution

* Group scale: every in the world/ class/ small group

* emotion: how to get rid of negative affect

Roster

Jihie Kim, Information Sciences Institute / University of Southern California, USA

Rohit Kumar, BBN, USA

Susan Bull, University of Birmingham, UK

Ilya Goldin, Canegie Mellon Univ., USA

Ana Paiva, INESC-ID and IST, Portugal

Art Graesser, University of Memphis

Oliver Scheuer, Saarland Univ.

Fazel Keshtkar, Univ. of Memphis, USA

Beverly Woolf, Univ. of Mass., USA

Gerard Veeshof, Univ. of Amsterdam

Sebastian Gross, Clausthal University of Tech

Nguyen-Thinh, Clausthal University of Tech

Liapis Antonios, IT unit. of Copenhagen

Caitlin Mills, Univ. of Notre Dame

Blair Lehman, University of Memphis, USA

Stergios Tegos, Aristotle Univ. of Thessalouiki

David Adamson, Canegie Mellon Univ.

Keith Brawner, Army Research Lab/Univ of Central Florida

Mihai Dasaceler, Univ. of Politehnica of Bucharest/University of Grenoble

Stephan Trausan-Matu, University Politehnica of Bucharest

Erin Shaw, University of Southern California, USA

Ricky Sethi, University of Southern California, USA

Roberto Martinez, University of Sydney, Australia