Representational Support for Collaborative Inquiry

  • Authors:
  • Dan Suthers

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper summarizes experiences with a software environment for the construction of diagrammatic representations of evidential relations, leading to the hypothesis that variation in features of representational tools can have a significant effect on learners' discourse and on learning outcomes. The paper then sketches a theoretical analysis of the roles of constraint and salience in the effect of representational bias on collaborative learning discourse, and describes initial studies now underway that investigate the effects of alternate representations on the quality of discourse between learners.