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ERIC Number: EJ680600
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun-1
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0144-3410
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Children's Sociometric Membership Group and Computer-Supported Interaction in School Settings
Koivusaari, Ritva
Educational Psychology, v24 n3 p359-374 Jun 2004
This study analyzed what kind of role sociometric status has in non-real time computer conversations. Computer-supported conversations were investigated by using two local area networks. Participants were 52 9 to 10-year-old schoolchildren selected from three sociometric strata: rejected, average, and popular. Children's preferred friends, school project companions, and spare time companions were considered separately. Furthermore, the role of achievement was studied. Results show that boys participate in conversations more actively than girls do. Rejected children are not at a disadvantage compared to popular children. Moreover, boys in the average popularity group engage in more active computer conversations than children in other groups. Most of the diversities are obtained when sociometric grouping is based on school project companions. This study shows that group working skills are more important for boys than for girls.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 3
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Language: English
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