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In-person verses online collaboration in science
In an article published in 2014 in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, researchers studied whether online collaborative learning was more effective than in-person collaborative learning in middle school science classes in relation to students’ understanding of science concepts.
In the study, 90 eighth graders (Year 9) from five classes taught by two teachers at a Virginia school participated over nine weeks. One teacher taught the experimental group and the other taught the control group. The experimental group collaborated online and did not receive immediate teacher feedback on their theories, unlike the control group who collaborated in person.
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