Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sormunen, Eero, Tanni, Mikko, Heinström, Jannica
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1044677
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1867181861950717952
author Sormunen, Eero
Tanni, Mikko
Heinström, Jannica
author_facet Sormunen, Eero
Tanni, Mikko
Heinström, Jannica
Sormunen, Eero
Tanni, Mikko
Heinström, Jannica
collection Education Resources Information Center
contents Students' Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Group Assignments for Information Literacy Sormunen, Eero Tanni, Mikko Heinström, Jannica Information Literacy Cooperative Learning Information Seeking Interviews Secondary School Students Student Projects Cooperative Planning Writing Assignments Group Activities Foreign Countries Coding Introduction: Information literacy instruction is often undertaken in schools as collaborative source-based writing assignments. his paper presents the findings of a study on collaboration in two school assignments designed for information literacy. Method: The study draws on the models of cooperative and collaborative learning and the task-based approach to study information seeking and use. Data were collected by interviewing seventeen groups of upper secondary school students during and after their group projects. Analysis: Thematic analysis revealed how students cooperated and collaborated, and built a basis for joint meaning making from sources and knowledge building in their own texts. Results: Few student groups worked closely together (collaborated) in all activities: planning the work, searching, assessing and reading sources, and writing the article. Some other groups started similarly but drifted to loosely coordinated cooperation at the stage of reading and writing. About a half of the groups divided the work into independent, personal text writing tasks but failed to merge texts into a coherent article. Conclusions: The case suggests that in the present school culture group assignments may turn into loosely connected individual efforts and waste much of the group work potential both in learning about the topic area and information literacy. [This paper was published as part of: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-22 August, 2013.]
format Recurso educativo Open Access
id eric_EJ1044677
institution ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
language en
publishDate 2013
record_format eric
spellingShingle Students' Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Group Assignments for Information Literacy
Sormunen, Eero
Tanni, Mikko
Heinström, Jannica
Information Literacy
Cooperative Learning
Information Seeking
Interviews
Secondary School Students
Student Projects
Cooperative Planning
Writing Assignments
Group Activities
Foreign Countries
Coding
Students' Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Group Assignments for Information Literacy Sormunen, Eero Tanni, Mikko Heinström, Jannica Information Literacy Cooperative Learning Information Seeking Interviews Secondary School Students Student Projects Cooperative Planning Writing Assignments Group Activities Foreign Countries Coding Introduction: Information literacy instruction is often undertaken in schools as collaborative source-based writing assignments. his paper presents the findings of a study on collaboration in two school assignments designed for information literacy. Method: The study draws on the models of cooperative and collaborative learning and the task-based approach to study information seeking and use. Data were collected by interviewing seventeen groups of upper secondary school students during and after their group projects. Analysis: Thematic analysis revealed how students cooperated and collaborated, and built a basis for joint meaning making from sources and knowledge building in their own texts. Results: Few student groups worked closely together (collaborated) in all activities: planning the work, searching, assessing and reading sources, and writing the article. Some other groups started similarly but drifted to loosely coordinated cooperation at the stage of reading and writing. About a half of the groups divided the work into independent, personal text writing tasks but failed to merge texts into a coherent article. Conclusions: The case suggests that in the present school culture group assignments may turn into loosely connected individual efforts and waste much of the group work potential both in learning about the topic area and information literacy. [This paper was published as part of: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-22 August, 2013.]
title Students' Engagement in Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Group Assignments for Information Literacy
topic Information Literacy
Cooperative Learning
Information Seeking
Interviews
Secondary School Students
Student Projects
Cooperative Planning
Writing Assignments
Group Activities
Foreign Countries
Coding
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1044677