A Context for Learning: Collaborative Groups in the Problem-based Learning Environment.

Cockrell, Karen Sunday; Caplow, Julie A. Hughes; Donaldson, Joe F.

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Publication Date: 2000

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A Context for Learning: Collaborative Groups in the Problem-based Learning Environment.

Cockrell, Karen Sunday; Caplow, Julie A. Hughes; Donaldson, Joe F.

Review of Higher Education, v23 n3 p347-63 Spr 2000

Explored the perspectives of graduate students (n=18) toward their learning in a course in higher and continuing education which used three collaborative groups in a problem-based instructional approach. Identified a core theme, ownership of knowledge, and three embedded subthemes: (1) group dynamics, (2) tutor feedback, and (3) metacognitive awareness. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: College Instruction, Cooperative Education, Educational Environment, Empowerment, Epistemology, Feedback, Graduate Study, Group Dynamics, Group Instruction, Higher Education, Metacognition, Problem Based Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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