Article 2023

Effects of Interaction between Peer Assessment and Problem-Solving Tendencies on Students’ Learning Achievements and Collaboration in Mobile Technology-Supported Project-Based Learning

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Zhang, Di
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Hwang, Gwojen
Journal of Educational Computing Research
Journal · Vol. 61 · Issue 1 · pp. 208-234
Abstract

Project-based learning (PBL) aims to foster students’ problem-solving ability and collaboration by engaging them in completing a project in teams. Researchers have indicated the importance of guiding students to make comparisons and reflection during the process of project-based learning. Therefore, the present research proposed a peer assessment-based PBL (PA-PBL) approach to boost students’ PBL performances. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a quasi-experiment was conducted for 3 weeks. A total of 110 secondary students were divided into an experimental group learning with the PA-PBL approach and a control group learning with the conventional PBL (C-PBL) approach. The students’ problem-solving tendency, learning achievement, and collaboration tendency were evaluated. The experimental results indicated that the PA-PBL approach improved the students’ learning achievement, especially for those students with higher problem-solving tendency. In terms of collaboration tendency, it was found that the PA-PBL approach benefited the lower problem-solving tendency students more than the C-PBL approach, while there was no difference between the higher problem-solving tendency students in the two groups. The experimental results also indicated that the PA-PBL approach could better enhance students’ problem-solving tendencies than the C-PBL approach. © The Author(s) 2022.

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Project-Based Learning learning achievement Peer Assessment collaboration tendency problem-solving tendency

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Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Funding & Acknowledgements
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST
Grant: MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3, MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under contract numbers MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3 and MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3. It is also founded by the Tri-Service General Hospital and National Taiwan University Joint program under the contract number TSGH-NTUST-109-05.
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under contract numbers MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3 and MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3. It is also founded by the Tri-Service General Hospital and National Taiwan University Joint program under the contract number TSGH-NTUST-109-05.
National Taiwan University, NTU
Grant: TSGH-NTUST-109-05
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under contract numbers MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3 and MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3. It is also founded by the Tri-Service General Hospital and National Taiwan University Joint program under the contract number TSGH-NTUST-109-05.
National Taiwan University, NTU
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under contract numbers MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3 and MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3. It is also founded by the Tri-Service General Hospital and National Taiwan University Joint program under the contract number TSGH-NTUST-109-05.
Tri-Service General Hospital, TSGH
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under contract numbers MOST-109-2511-H-011-002-MY3 and MOST-108-2511-H-011-005-MY3. It is also founded by the Tri-Service General Hospital and National Taiwan University Joint program under the contract number TSGH-NTUST-109-05.
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