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Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation
BACKGROUND: In health professions education, several collaborative learning approaches have been used. As collaborative learning has a theoretical background of social interdependence theory, a theory informed and valid instrument to measure social interdependence is required to evaluate and compare...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268626/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02088-3 |
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author | Shimizu, Ikuo Kikukawa, Makoto Tada, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Teiji Duvivier, Robbert van der Vleuten, Cees |
author_facet | Shimizu, Ikuo Kikukawa, Makoto Tada, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Teiji Duvivier, Robbert van der Vleuten, Cees |
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description | BACKGROUND: In health professions education, several collaborative learning approaches have been used. As collaborative learning has a theoretical background of social interdependence theory, a theory informed and valid instrument to measure social interdependence is required to evaluate and compare several learning approaches. The aim of this study was to develop an instrument (the SOcial interdependence in Collaborative learning Scale; SOCS) to measure students’ perceived social interdependence in collaborative learning and validate it. METHODS: We conducted a modified Delphi procedure among stakeholders to develop the content validity of the instrument. To establish construct validity, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis, and we estimated reliability. RESULTS: Two rounds of Delphi were conducted to develop the instrument. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded a three-factor model with 15 items, which provided an excellent fit with CMIN/df = 1.838, GFI = 0.924, CFI = 0.951, RMSEA = 0.061, and PCLOSE = 0.121. Alpha-coefficients for all factors indicated high internal consistency of all the factors. CONCLUSION: This study describes the development and construct validation of the SOCS for measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning. This instrument will provide teachers and schools with feedback about their classroom environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-72686262020-06-08 Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation Shimizu, Ikuo Kikukawa, Makoto Tada, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Teiji Duvivier, Robbert van der Vleuten, Cees BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: In health professions education, several collaborative learning approaches have been used. As collaborative learning has a theoretical background of social interdependence theory, a theory informed and valid instrument to measure social interdependence is required to evaluate and compare several learning approaches. The aim of this study was to develop an instrument (the SOcial interdependence in Collaborative learning Scale; SOCS) to measure students’ perceived social interdependence in collaborative learning and validate it. METHODS: We conducted a modified Delphi procedure among stakeholders to develop the content validity of the instrument. To establish construct validity, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis, and we estimated reliability. RESULTS: Two rounds of Delphi were conducted to develop the instrument. Confirmatory factor analysis yielded a three-factor model with 15 items, which provided an excellent fit with CMIN/df = 1.838, GFI = 0.924, CFI = 0.951, RMSEA = 0.061, and PCLOSE = 0.121. Alpha-coefficients for all factors indicated high internal consistency of all the factors. CONCLUSION: This study describes the development and construct validation of the SOCS for measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning. This instrument will provide teachers and schools with feedback about their classroom environment. BioMed Central 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7268626/ /pubmed/32487067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02088-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shimizu, Ikuo Kikukawa, Makoto Tada, Tsuyoshi Kimura, Teiji Duvivier, Robbert van der Vleuten, Cees Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
title | Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
title_full | Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
title_fullStr | Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
title_short | Measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
title_sort | measuring social interdependence in collaborative learning: instrument development and validation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268626/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32487067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02088-3 |
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