ONLINE COLLABORATION FOR PROGRAMMING: Assessing Students’ Cognitive Abilities

This study is primarily focused on assessing the students' logical thinking and cognitive levels in an online collaborative environment. The aim is to investigate whether the online collaboration has significant impact to the students' cognitive abilities. The assessment of the logical thi...

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Published in:The Turkish online journal of distance education TOJDE 2015-10, Vol.16 (4), p.84
Main Authors: OTHMAN, Mahfudzah, ZAIN, Nurzaid MUHD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive Ability
Computer Science
Cooperative Learning
Correlation
Foreign Countries
Group Assessment of Logical Thinking
Logical Thinking
Malaysia
Online Courses
Problem Solving
Programming
Student Attitudes
Student Evaluation
Taxonomy
Tests
Thinking Skills
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:This study is primarily focused on assessing the students' logical thinking and cognitive levels in an online collaborative environment. The aim is to investigate whether the online collaboration has significant impact to the students' cognitive abilities. The assessment of the logical thinking involved the use of the online Group Assessment Logical Thinking (GALT) test that has been conducted in two phases; before and after the online collaborative activities. The sample of respondents for this study is sixty first year Diploma in Computer Science students from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Perlis, Malaysia where they were divided into fifteen collaborative groups. These collaborative groups were then engaged in a 3-hour session of collaborative activities via the Online Collaborative Learning System (OCLS). The results for this study has revealed that the online collaborative learning has significant impact to the students' logical thinking levels with the increment of 21.7% high logical thinkers with p-value
ISSN:1302-6488
1302-6488
DOI:10.17718/tojde.88618