Co-Construction: How to Create Different Prior Knowledge Base for Successful Collaboration

合作学习往往比单独学习效果更好。其有效性的一个明显原因可能是合作使人们能够学习和整合不同的想法和观点，这就预示着具有不同背景知识的儿童之间的合作将比具有相同或相似背景知识的儿童之间的合作更富有成效。这个项目将探索需要什么样的先验知识和多大的差异来确保富有成效的合作。该项目的重点是开发（和试点讲述）材料，这些材料将用于未来的研究，该研究将直接检验具有不同先验知识的儿童之间的合作是否比具有相同先验知识的儿童之间的合作更有利于创造新知识。预计在该项目完成后，我们将能够更好地解决先验知识对协作的影响。

Collaborative learning often leads to better learning than learning alone. One distinct reason for its effectiveness could be that collaboration enables people to learn and integrate different ideas and perspectives, which then predicts that collaboration among children with different background knowledge will be more fruitful than collaboration among children with same or similar background knowledge. This project will explore what kind of and how much difference in prior knowledge is needed to ensure a fruitful collaboration. The focus of the project is on developing (and pilot telling) materials that will be used in a future study which will examine directly whether collaboration among children with different prior knowledge is ironed more conducive to the creation of new knowledge than collaboration among children with same prior knowledge. It is expected that upon the completion of this project, we will be in a better postion to address the effect of prior knowledge on collaboration.