How Students Behave while Solving Critical Thinking Tasks in an Unconstrained Online Environment: Insights from Process Mining
To learn successfully with the use of various internet resources, students must acquire critical thinking skills that will enable them to critically search, evaluate, select and verify information online. Defined as Critical Online Reasoning, this complex latent construct manifests itself in an unco...
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| Language: | English |
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National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Вопросы образования |
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| Online Access: | https://vo.hse.ru/article/view/18051 |
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| Summary: | To learn successfully with the use of various internet resources, students must acquire critical thinking skills that will enable them to critically search, evaluate, select and verify information online. Defined as Critical Online Reasoning, this complex latent construct manifests itself in an unconstrained online environment and is measured on two levels: students’ work product (an essay) and the process of task completion (online behaviour patterns). This research employs process mining techniques to investigate the possibility of distinguishing between students’ successful and unsuccessful attempts to take the test. The findings of the work were gained on generalised behaviour patterns from the process mining algorithm deployed on two groups of students (63 low performing and 45 high performing students). Divided by the work product score, the two groups exposed some differences in their online behaviour, with the high performers showing more strategic behaviour and effective search and use of information online. However, the research has also shown the downside of process mining as a tool for generalisation of process patterns. |
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| ISSN: | 1814-9545 2412-4354 |