An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency

Giuliano Orru, Federico Gobbo, Declan O'Sullivan, Luca Longo

2018

Abstract

Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborative learning through social interactions. However, it tends to ignore the human mental architecture, pillar of cognitivism. A characteristic of cognitivism is that instructional designs built upon it are generally explicit, contrarily to constructivism. This position paper proposes a novel learning task that is aimed at combining both the approaches through the use of trigger questions in a collaborative activity executed after a traditional delivery of instructions. To evaluate this new task, a metric of efficiency based upon a measure of mental workload and a measure of performance is proposed. The former measure is taken from Ergonomics, and two well know subjective self-reporting mental workload assessment techniques are envisioned. The latter measure is taken from an objective quantitative assessment of the performance of learners employing concept maps.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Orru G., Gobbo F., O'Sullivan D. and Longo L. (2018). An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-291-2, pages 292-302. DOI: 10.5220/0006790702920302

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu18,
author={Giuliano Orru and Federico Gobbo and Declan O'Sullivan and Luca Longo},
title={An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2018},
pages={292-302},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006790702920302},
isbn={978-989-758-291-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency
SN - 978-989-758-291-2
AU - Orru G.
AU - Gobbo F.
AU - O'Sullivan D.
AU - Longo L.
PY - 2018
SP - 292
EP - 302
DO - 10.5220/0006790702920302