Impacts of a dynamic grouping strategy on students' learning effectiveness and experience value in an item bank-based collaborative practice system |
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| Authors: | Beyin Chen Gwo-Haur Hwang Tze-Shiun Lin |
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| Institution: | Address for correspondence: Gwo-Haur Hwang, Bachelor Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123, Sec.3, University Rd., Douliou, Yunlin, 64002, Taiwan. Email: ghhwang0424@gmail.com |
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| Abstract: | Past research has pointed out that a good grouping strategy can improve the learning effectiveness of collaborative learning. However, the grouping strategy adopted in most past research is static grouping. This results in some disadvantages. Therefore, this study developed an item bank-based collaborative practice system and proposed a dynamic grouping method which uses the concepts of weighted quizzes and bit coding as the rule of a regrouping algorithm. The method and the traditional static method were applied to two classes of sophomore students of a university of science and technology in the central region of Taiwan. There were 76 valid samples which included 38 students of the experimental group and 38 of the control group. The control group adopted the static grouping method, and the experimental group adopted the dynamic grouping method. The experimental duration was 9 weeks of 3 hours per week. Experimental results showed that the collaborative experience value and the learning effectiveness of the experimental group were significantly greater than those of the control group. This indicates that the experimental group students made more efforts to conduct coordination, discussion and finally reach consensus with their partners, and made greater progress than the control group students. |
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| Keywords: | dynamic grouping strategy learning effectiveness experience value Collaborative learning an item bank-based system |
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