How elementary school students evaluate the learning strategy of collaborative projects using ICT

  • Authors:
  • Ana García-Valcárcel;Verónica Basilotta

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technological Ecosystem for Enhancing Multiculturality
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The use of collaborative learning projects using ICT in classrooms is now a reality in a number of schools. With these procedures, teachers assume that students will development not only cognitive skills, but also social and emotional ones, as has been pointed out in several prior research studies [11, 18] but, in any case, there is a need for a systematic and rigorous evaluation of the results obtained when these processes are used. This study uses a rating scale constructed and validated by the researchers to present data that provide information about the opinions of students who participated in learning processes involving a collaborative learning project with ICT. The results point to a positive assessment of the learning processes in which the organization of the work is especially valued, so that it becomes almost a key variable that explains the success of these processes.