Investigation on Collaboration Competency of Elementary School Students in Ubiquitous Problem-Based Learning

With the advancement of mobile and wireless communication technologies, the ubiquitous learning system have provided students more assistance without being limited by time and space when they were participating in problem-based collaborative learning. The purpose of this study is to investigate the progress of students' collaboration competence in field inquiry activities. A total of 43 sixth and fifth grade elementary students were sampled to participate in three times field observation activities with the support of ubiquitous learning system and to be evaluated the progress of collaboration competency. On-line discussion records were used to explore students' collaboration and a rubric for evaluating the students' collaboration competency was developed and validated. The experimental results show that the students' collaboration competence significantly improved during the learning process. Moreover, reasonable correlation among collaboration competence, scientific inquiry ability and school academic performance were evidence to validate the rubric.

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