MCE EXAMINATION (COLLABORATION)

Which of this statement best describe collaboration in the 21CLD programme?

• A course that introduces teachers to the dimensions of collaboration which are: students working in groups or pairs, sharing responsibility, making substantive decisions together, and being co-dependent on one another.

• An important requirement that will make the 21^st century worker become great team players..

• A course that bring a class alive with various engaging activites that require students and teachers to work together in achieving success.

• A course that helps teachers develop ability for them to work in groups, learn how to share responsibility, also jointly making substantive decisions with others while leaning to work as a team.

     

What are considered the key features for collaboration?

• Working with others, having shared responsibility, making substantive decisions together and the work is interdependent

• Working with others, having shared responsibility, using multi-modal tools and the work is interdependent

• Working with others, having shared responsibility, making substantive decisions together and having the opportunity to revise work based on feedback

• Working with others, having shared responsibility, making substantive decisions together and the activity is interdisciplinary

Consider the following activity: students are asked to each create a webpage about signs of climate change in their area over the past 20 years. The pages will be linked to the class homepage. Can the student’s work be considered interdependent?

• No, because the students do not have to strategize together in order to complete the overall task.

• Yes, because each student is working on his/her own section and the success of the activity is dependent on each student completing their webpages.

• No, because the students have not been assigned specific roles within the project.

• Yes, because each student is responsible for the content of their page which must be completed for the group to do its work.

For interdependent work to take place, both individual and group accountability is required. How is individual accountability defined for 21CLD collaboration?

• Each individual on the team is responsible for a task that he/she must complete in order for the group to do its work. Each student on the team is given a role

• Each individual on the team is responsible for a number of tasks to be completed in order for the group to do its work. The role of each student on the team is essential

• Each individual on the team is responsible for a task that he/she must complete in order for the group to do its work. The role of each student on the team is essential

• Each individual on the team is responsible for a task that he/ she must complete in order for the group to do its work. The role of each student on the team is optional

      In an activity where students do work together but they do not have shared responsibility, how would you code this using the 21CLD Collaboration rubric

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Consider the following activity: students (in groups of three) work together using Skype to interview a student from another country to explore differences in their daily diets. After the Skype call the group presents its findings to the class using PowerPoint. Considering the role of the outside student, which of the following statements is true:

• The students are not working together and do not have shared responsibility

• The students are working together and have shared responsibility

• The students are working together but do not have shared responsibility

• The students are not working together and do have shared responsibility

 When a learning activity is coded at a 4 in terms of collaboration, this indicates that in the learning activity:

• Students do have shared responsibility and they do make substantive decisions about the content, process, or product of their work but they do not work co-dependently

• Students do have shared responsibility and they do make substantive decisions together about the content, process, or product of their work, but their work is not interdependent

• Students do have shared responsibility and they do make substantive decisions about the content, process, or product of their work and they work co-dependently.

• Students do have shared responsibility and they do make substantive decisions together about the content, process, or product of their work and their work is interdependent

The unit of work featured in this course carried out by Paula Vorne in Finland. In this unit, what evidence is available of interdependent work:

• The students in their groups, assembled their information into a coherent presentation

• The students, in their groups, decided which keywords they would use to characterise the Human Body and wellbeing

• The students had to decide how they would represent the knowledge they had learned at the fair

• The students had to negotiate and agree on the roles and responsibilities of the group members for the duration of the fair

Which of these are three areas under substantive decision?

• Content, process and product

• Product, problem-solving and accountability

• Discuss an issuer, solve a problem and create a product

• Individual, peer and group accountability

What are the abbreviations and their meaning you learnt under collaboration?

• GW – Group Work, SD – Substantive Decision, AC - Accountability and IW – Interdependent Work

• IW – Interdependent, GW – Group Work, SD – Substantive Decision and AC – Accountability

• WT – Working Together, SD – Substantive Decision, IW – Interdependent Work, SR – Shared Responsibility

•  WT -Working Together, SR – Shared Responsibility, SD – Substantive Decision and IW – Interdependent Work