| Title | Individual versus Computer-Supported Collaborative Self-Explanations: How Do Their Writing Analytics Differ? |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Albó, Laia, Beardsley, Marc, Amarasinghe, Ishari, Hernández-Leo, Davinia |
| Conference Name | 2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) |
| Date Published | jul |
| Keywords | Coh-Metrix, Coherence, Collaboration, Collaborative Work, composability, computer-supported collaborative learning, Human Behavior, human factors, Metrics, pubcrawl, reflection, Scalability, Self-explanations, Syntactics, Task Analysis, text analytics, Writing, writing analytics |
| Abstract | Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of self-explanations (SE) as an instructional practice and study strategy. However, there is a lack of work studying the characteristics of SE responses prompted by collaborative activities. In this paper, we use writing analytics to investigate differences between SE text responses resulting from individual versus collaborative learning activities. A Coh-Metrix analysis suggests that students in the collaborative SE activity demonstrated a higher level of comprehension. Future research should explore how writing analytics can be incorporated into CSCL systems to support student performance of SE activities. |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICALT49669.2020.00046 |
| Citation Key | albo_individual_2020 |
Individual versus Computer-Supported Collaborative Self-Explanations: How Do Their Writing Analytics Differ?