Developmental Trajectory in Knowledge Building: An Investigation

摘要: Knowledge building is a collaborative process whereby community intentionally advances the collective state of knowledge through transforming discourse. Scardamalia (2002) described 12 characteristics that can be identified in discourses, which used to evaluate how far group engaging work actually building. This paper reports on level performance relation 10 principles as observed discourse students participating design experiment involving teachers and from 5 secondary schools Hong Kong. Altogether 250 participated summer programme, working collaboratively groups number topics using an electronic platform, Forum®. Results indicate there hierarchy accessibility for clustering development these characteristics.