Research On The Effect Of Role Design On Students’ Learning Engagement In CSCL

Research on collaborative learning has shown that simply grouping students does not guarantee that collaborative activities are effective.Many studies on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning(CSCL)have found that students have a low participation in collaborative activities and knowledge construction is inefficient.While roles can promote individual responsibility,positive internal dependence,and team cohesion,CSCL researchers have suggested introducing some form of instructional support or instructional structure to define the roles and activities students need to participate in order to promote students’ learning engagement and collaboration quality.The core research content of this study is the impact of role design in CSCL on student learning engagement,mainly focusing on the following three research questions:(1)Does the role design in CSCL have an impact on student learning engagement?(2)Under the different role assignment forms(student self-selection,random assignment),do students have different learning engagement in CSCL?(3)Is there a difference in the study engagement corresponding to different roles?Based on the above research questions,this paper carries out research from three aspects:(1)Combing relevant literature,summarizing the concept of roles and related research,summarizing the research status of role design and the roles commonly used in research;(2)Based on the research of roles,four roles applied in this study are designed: summarizer,skeptic,promoter and topic presenter;(3)A case study of CSCL was conducted in a high school in S City to explore the impact of role design on computer-supported collaborative learning.Based on the above research,the paper concludes that the role design can promote students’ learning engagement in CSCL,and mainly promotes cognitive engagement.Allowing students to choose their role promote higher learning engagement,and random role assignment has no significant effect on the level of student learning engagement in the collaborative process.Moreover,there is no difference in learning engagement of students of different roles.