Table 1 Rainbow system for content analysis; activity, category, and category definitions
Content analysis system for collaborative problem solving activity [[23]] | ||
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Activity | Category | Definition |
Outside | 1. Outside | Any interaction that is not concerned with interacting in order to carry out the defined task, e.g., talk about last night’s party. |
Non-task-focussed | 2. Social relation | Interaction concerned with managing the students’ social relations with respect to the task, e.g., greeting, leave-taking, politeness. |
3. Interaction management | Interaction concerned with managing the interaction itself, e.g., coordination (who will speak and who will not), establishing contact, topic shifting. | |
Task-focussed | 4. Task management | Management of the progression of the task itself, e.g., planning what is to be discussed, establishing whether problem is solved or not. |
5. Opinions | Interaction concerned with expressing opinions about the topic of discussion, e.g., beliefs, acceptances. | |
6. Argumentation | Expression of (counter-) arguments directly related to a thesis, or theses themselves, e.g., requests for justification | |
7. Broaden and deepen | Interaction concerned with (counter-)arguments linked to (counter-) arguments, argumentative relations and the meaning of arguments themselves, e.g., elaborations of arguments, definition. | |