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2006-01-20: Human SCINT Seminar (14)
Poster Mihoko Otake  Registed 2005-12-26 02:22 (1740 hits)

Date: 2006.1.20 (Fri) 15:30-16:45
Place: General Research Building, Room 663
Speaker: Sachiko Kiyokawa
Title: Effects of consultation-like collaboration on representational change.
Keywords: consultation-like collaboration, representational change, metacognitive suggestion, evaluating others' performance

Affiliation: Center for Research of Core Academic Competences, School of Education
Position: Project Researcher
Disciplines: Cognitive psychology, Educational Psychology
Societies and Conferences: Cognitive Science Society, Japanese Association of Educational Psychology, Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Japanese Psychological Association

Bibliography: Sachiko Kiyokawa, Effects of consultation-like collaboration on representational change., Human Science Integration Seminar Abstracts, No. 14, pp. 1, 2006.
(Please use this bibliography when you cite this abstract.)

Abstract:
Previous studies have suggested that two different roles, Performer and Consultant, emerge through collaboration. Performer mainly engages in problem-solving activities, while Consultant mainly supports his/her partner by making metacognitive suggestions. We named this style of collaboration "consultation-like collaboration" and examined the effects of consultation-like collaboration on representational change. In Experiment 1, we clarified whether consultation-like collaboration can facilitate representational change. The results showed that consultation-like collaboration can be effective in representational change. In the following two experiments, we experimentally examined how the facilitative effects of consultation-like collaboration emerge. In Experiment 2, we investigated the effects of metacognitive suggestions from Consultants on representational change within Performers. The results showed that metacognitive suggestions can facilitate representational change when Consultants actively analyze a Performer's thinking process and make suggestions in response. In Experiment 3, we examined the effects of evaluating partners' ideas on representational change. The results showed that participants who evaluated the partner-generated ideas prior to generating and evaluating their own ideas produced better performance than those who generated their own ideas and evaluated them thoroughly. Therefore, it was concluded that evaluating partners' idea, which Consultants mainly engages in, has facilitative effects on representational change.

References:
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[2] Okada, T. & Simon, H.A. (1997). Collaborative discovery in a scientific domain. Cognitive Science, 21, 109-146.

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[4] Ueda, K. & Niwa, K. (1997). Cognitive analysis of collaborative knowledge creation in R&D teams. Proceedings of Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET'97) (pp. 524-527).

[5] Kiyokawa, S. (2002). The interdependence structure facilitating representational change: Collaborative problem solving dividing activities into a task level and a meta-task level. Cognitive Studies, 9, 450-458. (in Japanese)

[6] Kiyokawa, S., Ueda, K., & Okada, T. (2004). The effects of other-generated hypotheses on scientific reasoning. Cognitive Studies, 11, 228-238. (in Japanese)
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