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Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) scripts aim to structure the process of collaboration creating opportunities for productive social interaction and learning. Despite CSCL research has shown these benefits for some scripts in particular contexts, more evidence is needed about to what extent learning gains are actually achieved for more families of scripts and in different conditions of implementation. This paper studies how three CSCL scripts based on the Pyramid collaborative learning flow pattern facilitate students learning in online classes. Learning gains are measured in terms of precision and confusion assessment criteria. Students’ behaviour in the learning process, regarding agreement in the knowledge exchange, is also analysed in relation to the learning gains. Results bring out several factors, and implications for the design of fruitful Pyramid scripts implementation, that related to the pedagogical envelope, the type of tasks, pyramid design elements, the need for epistemic orchestration, and debriefing.
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This work has been partially funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (COURAGE project, no. 95567). TIDE-UPF also acknowledges the support by FEDER, the National Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry, TIN2017-85179-C3-3-R, PID2020-112584RB-C33, MDM-2015-0502 and by ICREA under the ICREA Academia programme (D. Hernández-Leo, Serra Hunter).
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Amarasinghe, I., Hernández-Leo, D., Theophilou, E., Roberto Sánchez Reina, J., Quintero, R.A.L. (2021). Learning Gains in Pyramid Computer-Supported Collaboration Scripts: Factors and Implications for Design. In: Hernández-Leo, D., Hishiyama, R., Zurita, G., Weyers, B., Nolte, A., Ogata, H. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12856. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85071-5_3
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