How Do Students Learn Together?
Licentiatavhandling, 2023
Existing research tends to view such programs through the lens of learning outcomes and benefits rather than through the students’ experiences and their process of learning. There is a lack of studies that address the social aspects of project-based learning, in particular how groups engage in the social regulation of learning over the length of a project in interdisciplinary groups. This thesis aims to address these gaps in the research by examining collaborative learning and the regulation of learning in student groups taking part in project-based interdisciplinary groupwork at Chalmers University of Technology.
Two papers are incorporated within this thesis. The first paper analyses reflective writings by students to examine the challenges groups faced when taking part in undergraduate research and the coping strategies they employed in response. This revealed the actions and processes the groups engaged in during collaborative learning. The second paper uses qualitative interviews with students to investigate how groups regulate their learning as a group in interdisciplinary, project-based courses. The findings identify the different kinds of social regulation of learning employed by the student groups during the different phases of the project and factors that affected their regulation. When looked at together, the papers show the impact that desirable challenges, uncertainty, autonomy, and group composition have on both collaborative learning and social regulation of learning.
The thesis concludes with a discussion of how groups’ learning, and regulation of learning can benefit from scaffolding and the introduction of suitable coping strategies while maintaining the groups’ autonomy.
Co-regulation of Learning
Collaborative Learning
Socially Shared Regulation of Learning
Social Regulation of Learning
Desirable Challenges
Self-regulation of Learning
Project-based Learning
Författare
Michael O Connell
Chalmers, Vetenskapens kommunikation och lärande, Ingenjörsutbildningsvetenskap
Challenge Episodes and Coping Strategies in Undergraduate Engineering Research
Proceedings - SEFI 49th Annual Conference: Blended Learning in Engineering Education: Challenging, Enlightening - and Lasting?,;(2021)p. 1087-1095
Paper i proceeding
O'Connell, M., Wallin, P., Negretti, R., Stöhr, C. Social Regulation of Learning in Interdisciplinary Groupwork
Ämneskategorier
Utbildningsvetenskap
Lärande och undervisning
Pedagogiskt arbete
Licentiate theses - Department of Communication and Learning in Science, Chalmers University of Technology: Technical report no 2023:1
Utgivare
Chalmers
Seminar room 1, Hörsalsvägen 2, Göteborg
Opponent: Prof. Esther Ventura-Medina, Eindhoven School of Education within the Department of Applied Physics and Education Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands