Promoting student metacognition through collaborative analysis of their own debates

This paper presents a higher education experience aimed at explicitly promoting metacognitive processes in a social and collaborative context. Students carried out a debate on an e-forum, and were later asked to collaboratively analyse their own debates. The control group conducted this analysis usi...

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Authors: Lafuente Martínez, Marc, Álvarez Valdivia, Ibis Marlene|||0000-0002-3250-3214
Format: article
Publication Date:2016
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:175963
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/175963
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Metacognition
Argumentation
Graphic representation
Information and communication technologies
Collaborative learning
Higher education
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Summary:This paper presents a higher education experience aimed at explicitly promoting metacognitive processes in a social and collaborative context. Students carried out a debate on an e-forum, and were later asked to collaboratively analyse their own debates. The control group conducted this analysis using text-based tools; the experimental group analysed it with a graphical tool ("DebateGraph"). We examine the consequences of such experiences in promoting students' metacognitive processes for argumentative competence, as well as its impact on content knowledge learning. The analysis yields different results depending on the perspective adopted: students' self-assessment or instructor's assessment