Classification of excerpt of statements from the Lin2k metacognitive form according to the type of formulation and variable
1. Introduction
According to Reigeluth, instruction is "anything that is done to help someone learn", and Instructional Design (ID) theory is "anything that offers guidance for improving the quality of that help" (1997: 44). ID refers to the practice of analysis of the learning needs upon which, tools and content are systematically built in order to facilitate learning. Different learning theories informed the proposition of many ID theories and templates (Gagnè, 1985; Keller & Suzuki, 1988; Merrill, 1983; Reigeluth & Stein, 1983; van Merriënboer et al., 2002).
A quite rich discussion took place at the late nineties of the twentieth century, concerning two main directions; the orientation of the theories employed in the field of the ID and the role of the forthcoming information age to it. In the first direction, Seels (1997: 12) defined the theoretical orientations of ID as
From the aforementioned theoretical orientation and the information age perspective, it is evident that the ID, being a design process, initially involves precision and expertise, no matter what media of instruction are used for its implementation (Smith & Ragan, 2004). Moreover, adaptations of the instructional system need to be embedded in the ID process in order to capture the different characteristics of the learner (prior experiences and conceptions), motivation and behavior. Within this framework, the ID should be informed by experience gained during instruction that mediates learning, i.e., by the experienced instruction and not by the designed one only (Spector, 2005).
However, despite the differences of the proposed IDs, they foresee tools and content as mediators towards a shift of the learner from a current (input) to a next learning state (output). A traditional approach to detect this transition is based upon input-output observations, i.e., it focuses on the
The microgenetic approach has been proposed in 1948 (Werner, 1948) and recovered in 1970. During the last years, due to the new behavior capturing and computational possibilities, there is a shift towards its wide use (Siegler, 2006). A detailed review of various implementations of the microgenetic method can be found in Siegler (2006), including collaborative settings. Such settings, when mediated by ICT, usually include a communication model, which facilitates the collaborators to perform a common task. In this case, collaborative learning can be allocated either at the task and/or the collaborative skills level that are performed through interactions with the communication model. The latter may provide the participants with opportunities to improve their collaborative skills and thus be prepared for future relevant experiences at the professional level. Considering the divergent characteristics of the participants, such training requires provision of ‘proper’ support. Quite often, these environments provide support that concerns the task of the collaboration. However, when the focus is on the collaborative skills themselves, the collaborative process may be seen as an opportunity for experiential learning on how to collaborate and in this case, the support is moved to the collaborative skills. This approach, in turn, may influence the outcome of the collaboration, as it increases the ability of the participants to sustain the quality of the collaborative procedure.
Recent studies ground the design of the support to be provided by the system on the analysis of the participants’ collaborative interactions (Dillenbourg et al., 1996; Hadjileontiadou et al., 2003; Puntambekar, 2006). Such analysis, as far as the system is concerned, may be either of a ‘static’ form, e.g., statistical analysis of the collaborative interactions, or of a ‘dynamic’ one, e.g., intelligent inferences upon the collaborative interactions. Moreover, as far as the participant is concerned, the support is quite often of a
Metacognition, is a term that was introduced by Flavell (1979). It comprises mainly of metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experiences (Flavell, 1979; Flavell, 1987). Metacognitive knowledge refers to the knowledge of how a person learns, the different learning strategies s/he can apply and their efficiency. Metacognitive experiences refer to the practice of the metacognitive strategies. Applying these strategies, the person, defines the working task and makes predictions, plans his/her actions during the learning procedure and chooses learning strategies to complete the task, monitors and readjusts his/her working activity on the basis of his/her knowledge, regulates his/her working pace and evaluates the learning procedure (Brown, 1987).
From the aforementioned, it is evident that the metacognitive level constitutes a mechanism to monitor and adjust the cognitive one. At this level, daily life experience contributes to the development of concrete mental structures that allow the individual to explain real-world phenomena. When such knowledge meets the scientific one, misconceptions might be revealed. Provided the truth of the latter type of knowledge, these misconceptions are rooted in cognitive epistemological obstacles (hereafter obstacles) (Bachelard, 1983). These are highly connected to the above mental structures, i.e., are of an internal mode and might block learning, from conceptual, methodological and physiological point of view. An obstacle functions as an excessive commodity of thinking and holds a transversal character. As such, it explains and stabilizes many perceptions that are manifestations of it (Aristolfi & Peterfalvi, 1993). The latter are embedded in cognitive structures where they are organized to form coherent systems that facilitate understanding of phenomena and orientation of actions (Astolfi & Peterfalvi, 1993).
Within this framework, metacognition may contribute to the development of the competence of the student to identify the obstacles in order to avoid them in case they reappear. While research work has been done on the obstacles identification in the wider area of treating misconceptions in the science education (e.g., Astolfi & Peterfalvi, 1993; Skoumios & Hatzinikita, 2008), no relative work has been made at the collaborative skills in ICT mediated environments.
This chapter proposes a new approach to enhance the ICT based ID on collaborative skills enhancement, from the perspective of obstacles identification. More specifically, it focuses on the misconceptions that may be revealed through the discrepancy between the actual collaborative performance and the conceptions about it that holds the collaborator. Through a microgenetic approach, it aims at detecting the manifestation of the obstacles connected to such misconceptions and enhances the relative metacognitive skills towards better learning of how to collaborate.
The chapter is organized as follows. The next section, enriched with theoretical orientation, provides a useful background concerning the aforementioned concepts. The third section, introduces the proposed approach, whereas the fourth section, paradigmatic in character, exemplifies and discusses the way the proposed approach could be realized within a case study of collaboration. Through this, interesting possibilities to inform the ID, as far as the enhancement of the collaborative skills is concerned, are revealed. Finally, section five summarizes the core issues of the proposed approach and highlights extensions and future work.
2. Background Information
In this section, a theoretical background is presented. It is based on an ID for the enhancement of the collaborative activity and is provided to facilitate reader’s comprehension.
Figure 1, contributes towards such effort by depicting the overall approach. Moreover it aims at providing cohesion to the subsections that follow, which describe in details its building blocks.
2.1. The collaborative activity
The focus of this work is to enrich the ID of a system in order to enhance the collaborative skills of the subjects that use it. A common ID for an ICT-mediated collaborative activity foresees a communication model. It is materialized by appropriately designed interfaces, according to which, specific collaborative interactions are performed to unfold the collaboration upon a task. Such interfaces, e.g., for written collaboration may vary, providing the user with the choice to express him/herself, from totally structured, to semi-structured or totally free workspaces to submit a contribution. It is evident that the structure of the interface explicitly provides the tools to the user to collaborate and, in parallel, implicitly, entails the evolution of specific collaborative skills. Thus, irrespectively of the task, an ID that focuses on the enhancement of the collaborative skills initially has to define the communication model to be used.
Upon such materialization, the ID may foresee the provision of appropriate support to further enhance the collaborative skills. The subject performs the collaborative activity on the basis of his/her collaborative skills, i.e., s/he performs in the subjective domain (see Figure 1-Block 1). In order to realize if those skills need to be improved, they must be logged at the objective domain (see Figure 1-Block 2), where they can be assessed by the system. An indicator, namely hereafter as
Appropriate visualization settings may feedback the collaborators about the values of the indicator. Both these divergent means, the subject and the system, perform at the cognitive level (see Figure 1). However, the above informative feedback is expected to help the subject shift to the metacognitive level (see direction of feedback loop in Figure 1).
2.2. The metacognitive activity
The feedback on the collaborative performance is expected to trigger metacognitive activity of the subject i.e., to motivate self-regulated improvement of the collaborative skills, through individual self-appraisal and self-management of his/her thought and action (Paris & Winograd, 1990). The level of a learner’s performance can be improved through metacognitive interventions (Paris & Winograd, 1990). Metacognition has been linked to academic performance both theoretically and empirically (Osborne, 2000). In general the difference between the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ learners is, among other, due to fact that the good students do more self-monitoring and regulation of their strategy to ensure that the task is performed properly. These findings have been verified for all ages, from elementary school to individuals who perform at higher levels in academic domains (Osborne, 2000). Moreover, empirical findings suggest that metacognition has the potential to improve near-transfer, i.e., successful performance to a similar, yet a more difficult task (Osborne, 2000).
Metacognition can be taught, yet not only through knowledge provision but also through experiences on the implementation of cognitive and metacognitive strategies and evaluation, as well (Borkowski & Muthukrishna, 1992). Under this perspective, the overall collaborative procedure within the ID under consideration, can be seen as a process of successive experiential learning sessions of a) concrete collaborative experience at the cognitive level, b) reflective observation of the experience, that is, the deliberate and conscious mental reconstruction of the collaborative experience, so that the subject may realize the learning benefits from it, c) abstract conceptualisation of the efficient collaboration theory behind the experience, and d) planning, which enables the subject to assimilate the new understanding and translate it into planning of how further collaborative activity is to be handled, at the metacognitive level. Since metacognition is a conscious procedure, it is reportable and countable (Borkowski & Muthukrishna, 1992; Carr et al., 1994; Davidson et al., 1994). Therefore, when metacognitive planning of improvement is projected from the subjective to the objective domain it can be also aggregated in an indicator, namely
The aforementioned ID depicted in Figure 1 constitutes a session where a collaborative activity is performed and aggregated (from the collaborative skills perspective) by the
The comparison of the two indicators
2.3. Revealing misconceptions
Misconceptions, quite often, are rooted in obstacles, which form a kind of a ‘hard core’ of existing conceptions (Aristolfi & Peterfalvi, 1997; Peterfalvi, 2001; Skoumios & Hatzinikita, 2006) and hinder the learner to shift from the experiential (existing conceptual network) to the scientific (desired conceptual network) aspect of the subject to be learned. However, as opposed to the negative nature of these obstacles, Martinand (1986) proposed their utilization under a dynamic perspective within an educational setting, towards the detection of these conditions that may facilitate their overcome from the learner. In this way, the obstacles become objectives of a learning procedure (Martinand, 1986), which, among other instructional procedures, may anticipate a phase of identification of the obstacles by the learner. Such ID aims, at shifting again the learner at the metacognitive level, where s/he performs activities in order to acquire competences that will allow him/her to realize manifestations of the obstacles and to avoid their reappearance (Skoumios & Hatzinikita, 2008). In experimental situations in the area of science education, three dimensions of the obstacle identification procedure are detected (Peterfalvi, 1997; Peterfalvi, 2001). The first procedure is a
Within the collaborative ID setting that is depicted in Figure 1, the metacognitive realization of the collaborative activity may be warped, due to obstacles, as far as the comprehension of the proper collaborative activity is concerned. Here, the integration of the above approach within the collaborative framework is examined. More specifically, it could be triggered, when enhancement of the self-regulation procedure at the metacognitive level is the focus under question (see Figure 1-Block 3). The microgenetic method could be used for a detailed follow up of the evolution of this activity in time.
2.4. The microgenetic method study of transition
The microgenetic approach tries to detect a cognitive change as it evolves in time, from a current state (input level) to a next one (output level) (Siegler, 2006). When the variable under change is modelled through an indicator, a detailed monitoring of the variations of its values can inform a microgenetic approach of the mechanisms that trigger the change under consideration. Such monitoring entails a data collection system that functions according to a sampling procedure. More specifically (Siegler, 2006): a) the sampling must cover the time span in which the change is expected to take place, b) within this time the density of the sampling should be relative to the rate of change and c) the data of the sampling procedure should be analysed in detail in order to detect the mechanisms that caused the change. Such analysis is performed on the basis of statistical methods, graphical representations with the use of fuzzy logic and other approaches as they are reviewed by Cheshire et al. (2007).
During the microgenetic analysis, the following five dimensions are detected (Siegler, 2006):
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The microgenetic method can be used with subjects of any age, with different lessons, in laboratory or in real classroom settings (Siegler, 2006). In the area of the data analysis methods, the techniques employed to analyse microgenetic data remain fairly unsophisticated (Cheshire et al., 2007). The inferential statistical techniques, include the, commonly used in microgenetic studies, class of the techniques called
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3. The Proposed Approach
The integration of the microgenetic method within the ID, in order to follow up the obstacles identification concerning the discrepancy between the collaborative activity and its monitoring at the metacognitive level, is the core of the proposed approach. In particular, the metacognitive procedures, triggered by the student within a collaborative framework, could activate the procedures of obstacle identification, i.e.,
To embed the above concept within an ID for the enhancement of collaborative skills the following structure should be adopted. In particular, ID should be built upon two levels, i.e., a low and an upper one. ID at a low level foresees a computer-mediated collaborative activity that is performed in a predefined way in order to contribute to the improvement of the collaborative skills. At the upper level, metacognitive activity is also performed, in order to monitor and adjust the lower one. This activity is a self-regulation procedure that is supported by the system through appropriate feedback. Possible misconceptions that may exist at the metacognitive level may hinder the monitoring and the self-regulation procedure. A deep investigation to changes that are performed at the metacognitive level may contribute to the enhancement of the provided feedback and increase the possibilities to handle future similar misconceptions. Two basic assumptions should also be adopted. The first one is that the ID of the collaborative setting foresees triggering of the metacognitive activity of the collaborator in order to follow and self-regulate the collaborative one. The second one is that the misconceptions, concerning the way of collaboration, are allocated to the subjective metacognitive plane and hinder the above self-regulation procedure. Figure 2 builds upon the ID structure depicted in Figure 1 to present the allocation and aim of the analytical approach that is triggered when such misconceptions are manifested and modelled at the objective domain.
The modelling component is build upon cross-thematic knowledge, i.e., the elaboration of misconceptions and the microgenetic method. Misconception identification is performed on the basis of an instructional theory to guide the treatment of the misconceptions. A first step towards this treatment is the identification of the obstacles that serve as the background to the misconceptions. The present approach, by extending the approach of Peterfalvi (1997; 2001) towards the obstacles identification in the science education area, proposes its integration within the ID under consideration. This approach lends knowledge to specific artefacts (like questionnaires or structured feedback forms) and provides the ID with variables that may describe the transition to the identification of the obstacles at the metacognitive plane. The latter possesses a subjective character and only manifestations of it are used for its understanding and support; hence, crisp boundaries of the values of the above variables could not be determined. In this case, the use of the fuzzy sets theory (Zadeh, 1965) is proposed. More specifically, the values of variables that describe the transition to the identification of the obstacles at the metacognitive plane and other intermediate variables can be used as inputs to a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) (see Figure 2) or successive ones (where the output of a FIS can serve as input to another) to infer upon the aspects of change. This approach sets an enhanced ID Framework (e-IDF) that has low computational cost and the ability to lend the ID with adaptivity to the learner’s characteristics and automated possibilities that function on-the-fly. As an extension to this approach, intuitionist fuzzy systems (Atanassov, 1999) could be used to model student’s hesitation that may be hidden in the metacognitive activity.
Microgenetic analysis provides the method to monitor the transition in learning (e.g., on how to collaborate) and analyse it in-depth, in order to understand the underlying mechanisms that challenge it. This is realized as a sequence of the e-IDF depicted in Figure 2 across the sessions (denoted as
In the following section, the possibilities of the materialization of the proposed De-IDF within an ICT-based collaborative environment, namely Lin2k, are examined through the presentation of a case study.
4. The Lin2k Case Study
The Lin2k constitutes a computer-mediated collaborative learning system that supports asynchronous, written communication of pairs on a case study (Hadjileontiadou et al., 2003). It is adopted here as a test-bed to show the potentiality of the De-IDF to integrate elements of microgenetic analysis of the misconceptions at the metacognitive level during collaborative learning. In the subsections that follow, a short description of Lin2k is initially provided; then, the aspects of De-IDF from the perception of misconception and microgenetic analysis of empirical data are discussed.
4.1. The Lin2k Collaborative Environment
Lin2k aims at the improvement of the written collaborative skills. To this direction, it introduces an environment to the peers, which, implicitly by its design and explicitly by its materialization, provides collaborative experience, i.e., it contributes to the experienced instruction. More specifically, it focuses at the following issues:
The support. The efficient collaboration practices are further enhanced by the Lin2k supporting mechanism as depicted in Figure 4. More specifically, upon the peers’ activity in each step, empirical data are logged. At the end of each step, these data feed the Collaboration/Metacognition-Fuzzy Inference Model (C/M-FIS), which on the basis of the Fuzzy Logic (Zadeh, 1965) materializes an expert system that aggregates the collaborative and the metacognitive performance of each participant (Hadjileontiadou et al., 2004). The collaborative activity is aggregated, on the basis of the weighting system of the types of contributions, to an indicator (
From the aforementioned it is evident that Lin2k challenges the improvement of the collaborative skills by providing the environment of their practice, and motivations for their improvement trough the optimisation of the
4.2. Deepening in misconceptions from the De-IDF perspective
Now it is considered that the question marked misconception in Figure 1 (Block 3) is triggered, as in the experimental case of Figure 4, where a thorough observation of Figures 2(a) and (b) can inform about a discrepancy between the actual collaborative performance and the planning for improvement of student A. Such misconception may be rooted in obstacles, which lay at the metacognitive plane of student A and may be detected on the basis of the obstacle identification procedures proposed by Peterfalvi (1997; 2001) (see §2.3).
The first procedure of this perspective (
The second procedure (
On the basis of the classification of Table 1, the completion of the metacognitive form from student A in all steps, provided information concerning his displacement from local to transverse statements along the steps, for the variables under consideration,
Type of formulation | Variable | Statement |
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I realize the difference between the choices I have in the communication model to contribute an interaction at the task level |
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I realize the difference between the choices I have in the communication model to contribute an interaction at the coordination level | |
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I work out all the types of contribution provided by the communication model for collaboration | |
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I realize my role within the specific pair | |
Transverse |
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I introduce new ideas to the collaboration |
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I question the collaboration rate | |
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I extent the thoughts of my collaborator | |
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I get in my peer’s shoes while testing an idea |
In Figure 5, a rough depiction of the displacement, per variable, is depicted along the steps. The depiction was based on the assumption that the majority of the type of the statements under each variable characterizes as such the entire category of the variable. From Figure 5 it can be noticed that the intention of improvement was moved from statements at the
In particular, the statements referring to the
This
The third procedure (
On the basis of the classification of Table 2, the completion of the metacognitive form from student A in all steps provided information concerning his displacement from
In Figure 6, a rough depiction of the displacement, per variable, is depicted along the steps. The depiction was also based on the assumption that the majority of the type of the statements under each variable characterizes as such the entire category of the variable. From Figure 6 it can be noticed that the displacement to the dynamic statements is established in the fifth step for all the variables. This finding indicates that the transition to the obstacles identification was initiated by the
Type of judgement | Variable | Statement |
Static |
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I do not plagiarize |
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I keep the timetable | |
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I submit questions | |
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I document my ideas | |
Dynamic |
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I work out literally my texts |
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I take initiatives when to improve the efficiency of the collaboration | |
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I use questions to provoke my peer’s contribution | |
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I disagree with my peer’s ideas and not himself |
The above analysis of the performance of student A revealed the potentiality of the obstacles identification to provide opportunities to unlock the misconceptions that appeared in his case, justifying the focus area of the e-IDF (question mark in Figure 2).
Considering the fact that the steps provided the iterations of the collaborative and metacognitive performance, the above procedure allowed the detection of the change that occurred at his metacognitive performance, which was then reflected at his collaborative activity. This fosters the adoption of the concept of microgenetic approach in the structure of De-IDF; this is further discussed in the succeeding subsection.
4.3. Deepening in the microgenetic approach from the De-IDF perspective
The boundaries to characterize a study as microgenetic are somewhat subjective, as indicative research in the area showed (Siegler, 2006).
A basic criterion to decide if a study is microgenetic is to realize if it “intervenes change process through detailed, data-based specification of the representations and processes that led to learning” (Siegler, 2006). This effort entails both qualitative and quantitative data to capture the changing strategy in the competence under consideration. As previously discussed, in the case of student A, the
Another criterion is the fulfilment of the data sampling procedure to follow up change on-the-fly, i.e., while the learning process is progressing. In the case of student A, the sampling of the
The dynamic character of the De-IDF can also be reflected to the adaptivity of the supporting mechanism that informs the peer. For example, the supporting mechanism of Lin2k employs the C/M-FIS (a set of FIS) to infer the
In general, C/M-FIS materializes the modelling approach at low computational cost, instead of the statistical one, in the analysis of the microgenetic data, an approach that is also visited elsewhere (Cheshire et al., 2007) and remains free from the constrains of the statistical approaches. More information on the C/M-FIS can be found in (Hadjileontiadou et al., 2004).
Irrespectively from the method to be used and the constrains for its implementation, qualitative and quantitative aspects of change, i.e., the
For example, the source of change can be allocated to the sequential procedure of Lin2k, which initially anticipates the reflection phase and then the metacognitive planning of improvement by the completion of the metacognitive form by the peer. The feedback on the discrepancy between the action and the belief about its quality is expected to function as the source of change.
The
From the same figures, the
The
Finally, the
From the above analysis it is evident that the presented case study reveals the potential of the proposed De-IDF to serve as an efficient ID, shedding light upon its structural aspects under realistic collaborative scenarios.
5. Concluding Remarks
This chapter aimed at informing the Instructional Design (ID) of ICT–based collaborative environment about the possibilities of the microgenetic method to detect the transition towards the treatment of misconceptions that may be revealed at the metacognitive level and hinder collaboration.
Initially, a theoretical background was provided; then, the dynamic, enhanced ID framework (De-IDF) was proposed and a case study within a computer mediated collaborative environment (namely Lin2k) was used to present and discuss issues concerning the integration of De-IDF in realistic scenarios. The latter could include many thematic fields, spanning from collaborative to learning ones.
De-IDF truly enhances the mechanisms of the knowledge acquisition, as its serves as a kind of ‘denoising tool’ that reveals the misconceptions and serves to their overcome with a dynamic way. This adaptivity makes it favourable for many applications within ICT-based collaborative learning environments.
The implementation of De-IDF that integrates the misconceptions perspective and the microgenetic approach needs to be systematically built within the constrains that poses each approach.
The final educational setting from such implementation is expected to provide advanced learning opportunities by holding both an interpretative character, i.e., trying to uncover the choices involved in human action, and a critical one by directing the human action towards improvement.
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