A framework to analyze argumentative knowledge construction in computer-supported collaborative learning

  • Authors:
  • Armin Weinberger;Frank Fischer

  • Affiliations:
  • Knowledge Media Research Center, IWM Institut für Wissensmedienel, Tübingen, Germany;Knowledge Media Research Center, IWM Institut für Wissensmedienel, Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Education - Methodological issue in researching CSCL
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is often based on written argumentative discourse of learners, who discuss their perspectives on a problem with the goal to acquire knowledge. Lately, CSCL research focuses on the facilitation of specific processes of argumentative knowledge construction, e.g., with computer-supported collaboration scripts. In order to refine process-oriented instructional support, such as scripts, we need to measure the influence of scripts on specific processes of argumentative knowledge construction. In this article, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to analyze argumentative knowledge construction in CSCL from sampling and segmentation of the discourse corpora to the analysis of four process dimensions (participation, epistemic, argumentative, social mode).