Macrocognition In Teams And Metacognition: Developing Instructional Strategies For Complex Collaborative Problem Solving

Keywords

Collaboration; Macrocognition; Metacognition; Problem solving; Team cognition

Abstract

Team cognition research continues to evolve as the need for understanding and improving complex problem solving itself grows. Complex problem solving requires members to engage in a number of complicated collaborative processes to generate solutions. This chapter illustrates how the Macrocognition in Teams model, developed to guide research on these processes, can be utilized to propose how intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) could be developed to train collaborative problem solving. Metacognitive prompting, based upon macrocognitive processes, was offered as an intervention to scaffold learning these complex processes. Our objective is to provide a theoretically grounded approach for linking intelligent tutoring research and development with team cognition. In this way, team members are more likely to learn how to identify and integrate relevant knowledge, as well as plan, monitor, and reflect on their problem-solving performance as it evolves. We argue that ITSs that utilize metacognitive prompting that promotes team planning during the preparation stage, team knowledge building during the execution stage, and team reflexivity and team knowledge sharing interventions during the reflection stage can improve collaborative problem solving.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Research on Managing Groups and Teams

Volume

19

Number of Pages

33-54

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1108/S1534-085620180000019006

Socpus ID

85067028568 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85067028568

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