Advancing understanding of learning in interaction: how ways of participating can influence joint performance and learning

An enduring issue for CSCL researchers involves developing methods of assessing collaborative interaction and tracing the quality of collaboration to learning outcomes. One critical question for research is whether we can identify relational and/or interactional resources that are important for generative collaboration. In this presentation, we will share research that examined the relationship between student interactions, group success, and subsequent individual performance on the same and a related problem solving measure.