Learning to diagnose collaboratively – Effects of adaptive collaboration scripts in agent-based medical simulations

We investigated how medical students' collaborative diagnostic reasoning, particularly evidence elicitation and sharing, can be facilitated effectively using agent-based simulations. Providing adaptive collaboration scripts has been suggested to increase effectiveness, but existing is diverse could affected by unsystematic group constellations. Collaboration have criticized for undermining learners' agency. investigate the effect of static on reasoning basic psychological needs. randomly allocated 160 students one three groups: adaptive, static, or no script. found that learning with enhanced sharing performance transfer performance. Scripting did not affect learners’ perceived autonomy social relatedness. Yet, compared scripts, had positive effects competence. conclude complex skills complementing simulations seems beneficial help learners internalize without negatively affecting