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Interaction of guidance types and the Need for Cognitive Closure in wiki-based learning

One purpose of wikis is the collaborative generation of content. During creation processes, controversies between authors emerge that they discuss on the article’s talk page. Research suggests that controversies based on opposing points of view and contradictory evidence can be fruitful to trigger i...

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Autores principales: Heimbuch, Sven, Bodemer, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225169
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5541
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description One purpose of wikis is the collaborative generation of content. During creation processes, controversies between authors emerge that they discuss on the article’s talk page. Research suggests that controversies based on opposing points of view and contradictory evidence can be fruitful to trigger individual elaboration processes. However, previous research also showed that many wikis are not necessarily suited to identify relevant discussion contents and thus users need additional support as guidance. In an experimental laboratory study (N = 181) on wiki talk pages, we investigated two guidance measures in conjunction with the need for cognitive closure: (1) visual markers to highlight controversy status (implicit guidance) and (2) a collaboration script that directs users towards discussions (explicit guidance). Effects on wiki processes and learning outcomes were analysed. The results show that both guidance types can affect user behaviours, but in interaction with the individual Need for Cognitive Closure there were no meaningful effects. With respect to learning outcomes, we found an anticipated pattern for the interaction of the Need for Cognitive Closure with both guidance principles. The data provides support for differences in the learning success depending on the provided guidance type and the individual Need for Cognitive Closure.
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spelling pubmed-61390182018-09-17 Interaction of guidance types and the Need for Cognitive Closure in wiki-based learning Heimbuch, Sven Bodemer, Daniel PeerJ Psychiatry and Psychology One purpose of wikis is the collaborative generation of content. During creation processes, controversies between authors emerge that they discuss on the article’s talk page. Research suggests that controversies based on opposing points of view and contradictory evidence can be fruitful to trigger individual elaboration processes. However, previous research also showed that many wikis are not necessarily suited to identify relevant discussion contents and thus users need additional support as guidance. In an experimental laboratory study (N = 181) on wiki talk pages, we investigated two guidance measures in conjunction with the need for cognitive closure: (1) visual markers to highlight controversy status (implicit guidance) and (2) a collaboration script that directs users towards discussions (explicit guidance). Effects on wiki processes and learning outcomes were analysed. The results show that both guidance types can affect user behaviours, but in interaction with the individual Need for Cognitive Closure there were no meaningful effects. With respect to learning outcomes, we found an anticipated pattern for the interaction of the Need for Cognitive Closure with both guidance principles. The data provides support for differences in the learning success depending on the provided guidance type and the individual Need for Cognitive Closure. PeerJ Inc. 2018-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6139018/ /pubmed/30225169 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5541 Text en ©2018 Heimbuch and Bodemer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30225169
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