TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating collaborative learning and community
AU - Summers, Jessica J.
AU - Beretvas, S. Natasha
AU - Svinicki, Marilla D.
AU - Gorin, Joanna S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Special thanks go to Dr. Jeannine E. Turner for reviewing previous drafts of this article.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The goal of this study was to validate measures and assess the effects of collaborative group-learning methods in real classrooms on 3 specific dependent variables: feelings of campus connectedness, academic classroom community, and effective group processing (2 factors). Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to evaluate a 4-factor model. Using hierarchical linear modeling techniques, results indicated that campus connectedness and collaborative learning (compared with no collaborative learning) predicted positive academic classroom community. For classes using more formal cooperative group work, campus connectedness and group processing-evaluation predicted positive academic classroom community. Suggestions for further applications of the measures are discussed.
AB - The goal of this study was to validate measures and assess the effects of collaborative group-learning methods in real classrooms on 3 specific dependent variables: feelings of campus connectedness, academic classroom community, and effective group processing (2 factors). Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to evaluate a 4-factor model. Using hierarchical linear modeling techniques, results indicated that campus connectedness and collaborative learning (compared with no collaborative learning) predicted positive academic classroom community. For classes using more formal cooperative group work, campus connectedness and group processing-evaluation predicted positive academic classroom community. Suggestions for further applications of the measures are discussed.
KW - Campus connectedness
KW - Classroom community
KW - Collaborative learning
KW - Cooperative learning
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U2 - 10.3200/JEXE.73.3.165-188
DO - 10.3200/JEXE.73.3.165-188
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:30444434427
SN - 0022-0973
VL - 73
SP - 165
EP - 188
JO - Journal of Experimental Education
JF - Journal of Experimental Education
IS - 3
ER -