Researchers have stressed the importance of argumentation among small groups of students in STEM courses to help them develop deep understanding. But it is not widely used in …
Many researchers have stressed the importance of *argumentation* in STEM education to enable students to develop deep understanding. This work has mostly been at the K-12 level, …
Peer discussions of differing ideas enhance conceptual understanding. Applying this to college STEM courses presents challenges like short class times, large sizes, and a …
Piaget's classic work on cognitive development showed that engaging learners in critical discussions with peers about ideas that are different than theirs leads to deep conceptual …
Conflict and cooperation would seem to be ideas that are diametrically opposed to each other. But, in fact, classic work by Piaget on how children and adults learn shows that when …
Collaborative learning is a key component of software engineering (SE) courses in most undergraduate computing curricula. Thus these courses include fairly intensive team projects, …