Proses pembelajaran diarahkan untuk dapat berfokus pada bagaimana membuat peserta didik berpartisipai aktif. Salah satu metode dalam meningkatkan partisipasi aktif adalah melalui diskusi. Observasi dilapangan ditemukan bahwa pendidik mengalami kesulitan proses penentuan pembagianan kelompok Pembagian diskusi diharapkan mempertimbangkan ranah kecerdasan agar lebih efektif. Berdasarkan permasalah...

In many domains of life, business and management, numerous problems are addressed by small groups of individuals engaged in face-to-face discussions. While research in social psychology has a long history of studying the determinants of small group performances, the internal dynamics that govern a group discussion are not yet well understood. Here, we rely on computational methods based on netw...

This paper presents the output of a discussion group formed at the ITEM 3.7 Working Conference. The main theme of the discussion group was to consider the evolutionary nature of IT in Educational Management.

Two studies were performed in an attempt to generalize the risky-cautiousshift phenomenon to attitudes and to test "information exchange" and "mutual reinforcement" explanations of discussion-produced shifts. Study I confirmed an assumption of the information-exchange hypothesis by extending to the attitude realm the finding that subjects perceive their peers as less in the valued direction tha...

Small groups which form for teaching and learning process would have substantial outcomes if manage properly. Evidence suggests that environment and seating arrangement of the learners would have considerable impacts on the success of a facilitator to properly use from the dynamics of the group. The aim of the present article is therefore to discuss the appropriate environment and seating arran...