Blank, Laura (2023) Level of Group Cohesion and the Implementation of a Group Agreement: The Moderating Role of Attitude Towards Collaboration. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Collaborative learning is one of the most successful concepts in social and educational psychology (Johnson & Johnson, 2009). During our research we explore a group agreement as a tool to enhance the effects of collaborative learning. We conducted a quasi-experimental study in which we compared two convenience samples, collected amongst psychology bachelor students, who worked in groups based on their common superordinate topic choice. The first sample (N = 57) was collected by a bachelor student group, who investigated collaborative learning, in 2021/2022 while the second sample (N = 67) was collected by the current research team in the academic year of 2022/2023. Using survey data, we investigated whether the implementation of a group agreement for the second sample had a significant positive effect on perceived levels of group cohesion between the two samples. Furthermore, we investigated a possible moderation effect of attitude towards collaboration on the relationship between the group agreement and perceived levels of group cohesion. An independent samples t-test and a moderation analysis using the SPSS Process macro showed that our hypotheses were not supported. Finally, we conclude that although our expectations were not supported, group agreement is a high-potential tool to be applied in the educational context and suggest further research.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Havik, E.M. and Kuppens, T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2023 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2023 09:33 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1686 |
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