The Influence of Awareness of a Difference between Concept Maps on Transfer: Experimental Investigation on the Efficacy in Collaborative Learning

Abstract

This study investigated two types of feedbacks which we defined as directive feedback and indirect (facilitative) feedback for collaborative learning on concept explanation task. In this task, we investigated how these different types of feedback will influence on the performance. The results show that learners who received directive feedback outperformed the learning performance of those who did not receive interventions for both performance on learning and transfer performances. Also, learners who received facilitative feedback that present difference did not outperform those who had no intervention in terms of the learning performance. However, learners who receive facilitative feedback outperformed those who did not received an intervention with regard to the transfer performance. In a future study, we will need to investigate the transfer performance in detail and combination of directive and facilitative feedback.